Species that contain: Scarus and blochii [ 14 ] records

blochii, Scarus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840:219 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 14; ref. 4882] Japan. Lectotype: ZMB 8580 (right skin). Paralectotypes: ?ZMB 8586 (1, right skin). Replacement name for Scarus viridis Bloch 1790, preoccupied by Scarus viridis Bonaterre 1788. •Objective synonym of Scarus japanensis Bloch 1789 -- (Randall & Nelson 1979:206 [ref. 19975]). •Synonym of Chlorurus japanensis (Bloch 1789) -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:52 [ref. 24943]). •Incorrectly valid as Scarus blochii Valenciennes 1840 -- (Krishnan & Mishra 1994:294 [ref. 24014]). Replacement Name. Current status: Synonym of Chlorurus japanensis (Bloch 1789). Labridae. Habitat: marine.

chloris, Scarus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] (ex Parra) 1801:289 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Locality not stated [Havana, Cuba]. No types known. Based on the 'Vieja (No. 3)' of Parra 1787:59, Pl. 28 (fig. 4) [ref. 6840]. •Synonym of Sparisoma chrysopterum (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:60 [ref. 24943]). Current status: Synonym of Sparisoma chrysopterum (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Labridae. Habitat: marine.

chrysopterus, Scarus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:286, Pl. 57 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Tropical western Atlantic. Holotype (unique): ? ZMB 7049. Type catalog: Paepke 1999:127-128 [ref. 24282]. •Valid as Sparisoma chrysopterum (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Matsuura in Uyeno et al. 1983:400 [ref. 14275], Robins & Ray 1986:210 [ref. 23100], Boschung 1992:157 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:395 [ref. 23827], Bellwood 1994:65 [ref. 19116], Aguilera 1998:52 [ref. 24221], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:301 [ref. 25013], Parenti & Randall 2000:60 [ref. 24943], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:164 [ref. 27754], Rocha & Rosa 2001:991 [ref. 25909], Collette et al. 2003:116 [ref. 26784], Westneat 2003:1736 [ref. 27105], Smith et al. 2003:46 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:157 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:541 [ref. 28815], Robertson et al. 2006:796 [ref. 31512], Page et al. 2013:161 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:65 [ref. 33341], Robertson et al. 2016:147 [ref. 34961], Carneiro et al. 2019:288 [ref. 37250], Robertson et al. 2020:157 [ref. 38098], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:82 [ref. 38844], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:71 [ref. 39585], Carvalho-Filho 2023:215 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Sparisoma chrysopterum (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Labridae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: southern Florida (U.S.A.) south to Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago, including eastern Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. IUCN (2015): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.

coccineus, Scarus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] (ex Parra) 1801:289 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Locality not stated [Havana, Cuba]. Based on the 'Vieja (No. 2)' of Parra 1787:58, Pl. 28 (fig. 2) [ref. 6840]. •Synonym of Sparisoma viride (Bonnaterre 1788) -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:61 [ref. 24943]). Current status: Synonym of Sparisoma viride (Bonnaterre 1788). Labridae. Habitat: marine.

coeruleus, Scarus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:288 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Treatment in Bloch & Schneider is based on the same source as Edwards coerulea. Bloch & Schneider treat Scarus coerulea seven pages before, so the above is subjectively invalid; secondarily preoccupied in Scarus by Coryphaena coerulea Bloch 1786 [author is actually Edwards 1771; see Coryphaena coerulea]. •Synonym of Scarus coeruleus (Edwards 1771). 2°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Scarus coeruleus (Edwards 1771). Labridae. Habitat: marine.

flavescens, Scarus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] (ex Parra) 1801:290 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Locality not stated [Havana, Cuba]. No types known. Based on the 'Vieja (No. 4)' of Parra 1787:59, Pl. 28 (fig. 4) [ref. 6840]. •Synonym of Sparisoma chrysopterum (Bloch & Schneider 1801) -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:60 [ref. 24943]). Current status: Synonym of Sparisoma chrysopterum (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Labridae. Habitat: marine.

gibbosus, Calliodon Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:313 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Bahamas. No types known. Unnecessary replacement name for Perca chrysoptera Linnaeus 1766. Based on multiple sources: on Perca chrysoptera Linnaeus 1766, and on "Perca marina gibbosa cinerea" of Catesby 1771:2, Pl. 2, fig. 1 [ref. 774] [a synonym of Orthopristis chrysoptera (Linnaeus 1766)]. •Synonym of Scarus coeruleus (Bloch 1786) -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:55 [ref. 24943]). •Synonym of Orthopristis chrysoptera (Linnaeus 1766) -- (Parenti 2019:164 [ref. 37021]). Replacement Name. Current status: Synonym of Orthopristis chrysoptera (Linnaeus 1766). Haemulidae: Haemulinae. Habitat: marine.

guttatus, Scarus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] (ex Sonnerat) 1801:294 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Indian Seas. On description by Sonnerat 1774, v. 3:227, Pl. 2. •Synonym of Scarus ghobban Forsskål 1775 -- (Randall & Bruce 1983:20 [ref. 5412], Dor 1984:215 [ref. 29757], Choat & Randall 1986:207 [ref. 8099], Parenti & Randall 2000:56 [ref. 24943], Fricke et al. 2018:298 [ref. 35805], Randall 2022:282 [ref. 39936]). •Synonym of Scarus ghobban Fabricius 1775. Current status: Synonym of Scarus ghobban Fabricius 1775. Labridae. Habitat: marine.

insulaesanctaecrucis, Scarus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:285 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] St. Croix Island, Virgin Islands, West Indies. Originally as Insulae St. Crucis, correction to insulaesanctacrucis is mandatory; regarded as a species and not species insulae and subspecies sanctaecrucis. •Synonym of Scarus iseri (Bloch 1789) -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:57 [ref. 24943]). Current status: Synonym of Scarus iseri (Bloch 1789). Labridae. Habitat: marine.

lineatus, Calliodon Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:312, Pl. 62 (fig. 2) [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] No locality. Plate regarded as mislabeled Callyodon striatus. •Synonym of Scarus iseri (Bloch 1789) -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:57 [ref. 24943]). Current status: Synonym of Scarus iseri (Bloch 1789). Labridae. Habitat: marine.

loro, Scarus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] 1801:288 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] South America. •Synonym of Scarus coeruleus (Bloch 1786) -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:55 [ref. 24943]). •Synonym of Scarus coeruleus (Edwards 1771). Current status: Synonym of Scarus coeruleus (Edwards 1771). Labridae. Habitat: marine.

pullus, Scarus Forster [J. R.] in Bloch & Schneider 1801:288 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand. Holotype: BMNH 1975.6.4.4. Based on description in manuscript by Forster (Johann Reinhold Forster, 1729-1798, German explorer and naturalist of Cook's second voyage). •Valid as Odax pullus (Forster 1801) -- (Gomon & Paxton 1986:40 [ref. 5656], Paulin et al. 1989:209 [ref. 24556], Paulin & Roberts 1992:103 [ref. 24625], Kuiter 2010:68 [ref. 35285], Gomon et al. 2015:1373 [ref. 34207]). Current status: Valid as Odax pullus (Forster 1801). Odacidae. Distribution: Southwestern Pacific: New Zealand EEZ. Habitat: marine.

vetula, Scarus Bloch [M. E.] & Schneider [J. G.] (ex Parra) 1801:289 [M. E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae; ref. 471] Locality not stated [Havana, Cuba]. No types known. Based on the 'Vieja (No. 1)' of Parra 1787:58, Pl. 28 (fig. 1) [ref. 6840]. •Valid as Scarus vetula Bloch & Schneider 1801 -- (Robins & Ray 1986:209 [ref. 23100], Cervigón 1992:394 [ref. 23827], Bellwood 1994:68 [ref. 19116], Cervigón 1994:41 [ref. 24488], Aguilera 1998:52 [ref. 24221], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:300 [ref. 25013], Parenti & Randall 2000:60 [ref. 24943], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:164 [ref. 27754], Collette et al. 2003:116 [ref. 26784], Westneat 2003:1734 [ref. 27105], Smith et al. 2003:45 [ref. 27621], Nelson et al. 2004:156 [ref. 27807], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:538 [ref. 28815], Page et al. 2013:161 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Collette 2013:180 [ref. 32953], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:64 [ref. 33341], Robertson et al. 2016:147 [ref. 34961], Robertson et al. 2020:157 [ref. 38098], Escobar-Sierra et al. 2021:81 [ref. 38844], Bennema & van Moorsel 2022:71 [ref. 39585]). Current status: Valid as Scarus vetula Bloch & Schneider 1801. Labridae. Distribution: Western Atlantic. Habitat: marine.

viridis, Scarus Bloch [M. E.] 1790:29, Pl. 222 [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 4; ref. 469] Japan. Lectotype: ZMB 8586 (right skin). Paralectotypes: ?ZMB 8586 (1, right skin). On p. 20 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 7 [ref. 21381]. Objectively invalid; preoccupied by Scarus viridis Bonnaterre 1788, replaced by Scarus blochii Valenciennes 1840. Lectotype selected by Randall & Nelson 1979:207 [ref. 19975]. Lectotype selected by Paepke 1999:120 [ref. 24282]. •Objective synonym of Scarus japanensis Bloch 1789 -- (see Randall & Nelson 1979:207 [ref. 19975]). •Synonym of Chlorurus japanensis (Bloch 1789) -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:52 [ref. 24943]). 1°Homonym. Current status: Synonym of Chlorurus japanensis (Bloch 1789). Labridae. Habitat: marine.