Species that contain: Scarus and gibbus [ 6 ] records

frontalis, Pseudoscarus Macleay [W.] 1883:590 [Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales v. 7 (pt 4); ref. 17586] Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Holotype (unique): AMS I.16374-001 [ex MAMU F901]. Type catalog: Stanbury 1969:208 [ref. 19518]. Subjectively invalid; secondarily preoccupied in Scarus by Scarus frontalis Valenciennes 1840. •Synonym of Scarus gibbus Rüppell 1828 -- (Randall & Bruce 1983:22 [ref. 5412]). •Synonym of Scarus rubroviolaceus Bleeker 1847 -- (Choat & Randall 1986:219 [ref. 8099], Parenti & Randall 2000:59 [ref. 24943]). Current status: Synonym of Scarus rubroviolaceus Bleeker 1847. Labridae. Habitat: marine.

gibbus, Scarus Rüppell [W. P. E. S.] 1829:81, Pl. 20 (fig. 2) [Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Africa. Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 3843] Al Muwaylih, Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea. Lectotype: SMF 2686 (dry). Paralectotypes: SMF 2710 (1, dry), 6272 (1, skeleton); ?ZMB 2708 (dry). Lectotype established by Dor 1984:215 [ref. 29757] if not designated earlier. •Valid as Scarus gibbus Rüppell 1829 -- (Randall & Bruce 1983:22 [ref. 5412], Dor 1984:215 [ref. 29757], Kishimoto in Masuda et al. 1984:218 [ref. 6441], Choat & Randall 1986:209 [ref. 8099], Allen & Swainston 1988:124 [ref. 25477], Winterbottom et al. 1989:58 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:351 [ref. 15987], Goren & Dor 1994:56 [ref. 25356], Chen et al. 1997:140 [ref. 26476] dated 1828, Iwatsuki et al. 2000:103 [ref. 26368]). •Valid as Chlorurus gibbus (Rüppell 1829) -- (Bellwood 1994:66 [ref. 19116], Randall 1995:295 [ref. 22896], Parenti & Randall 2000:52 [ref. 24943], Randall 2005:450 [ref. 28239], DiBattista et al. 2015:20 [ref. 35706], Bogorodsky & Randall 2018:[6] 244 [ref. 36492], Golani & Fricke 2018:131 [ref. 36273], Zajonz et al. 2019:91 [ref. 36871] as cf. gibbus, Randall 2022:272 [ref. 39936], Zajonz et al. 2023:321 [ref. 40679]). Current status: Valid as Chlorurus gibbus (Rüppell 1829). Labridae. Distribution: Red Sea; northwestern Indian Ocean: Socotra (Yemen). Habitat: marine.

microcheilos, Pseudoscarus Bleeker [P.] 1861:231 [Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeling Natuurkunde. v. 12; ref. 381] Jakarta, Java, Indonesia. Possible type: BMNH 1864.5.15.45 (1). Unjustifiably emended to microcheilus by Günther 1862:236 [ref. 1969]. •Synonym of Scarus gibbus Rüppell 1828 -- (Randall & Bruce 1983:22 [ref. 5412], Choat & Randall 1986:209 [ref. 8099]). •Synonym of Chlorurus strongylocephalus (Bleeker 1855) -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:53 [ref. 24943], Fricke et al. 2018:297 [ref. 35805], Randall 2022:274 [ref. 39936]). Current status: Synonym of Chlorurus strongylocephalus (Bleeker 1855). Labridae. Habitat: marine.

microrhinos, Scarus Bleeker [P.] 1854:200 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 6 (no. 2); ref. 342] Jakarta, Java, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Bleeker specimens: BMNH 1862.2.28.54 (1). •Valid as Scarus microrhinos Bleeker 1854 -- (Kyushin et al. 1977:304 [ref. 19756], Francis 1993:166 [ref. 25479], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:380 [ref. 25191]). •Synonym of Scarus gibbus Rüppell 1829 -- (Randall & Bruce 1983:22 [ref. 5412], Dor 1984:216 [ref. 29757], Choat & Randall 1986:209 [ref. 8099], Randall et al. 1990:351 [ref. 15987], Kuiter 1993:310 [ref. 23929], Allen 1997:200 [ref. 23977] as microhinos). •Valid as Chlorurus microrhinos (Bleeker 1854) -- (Randall 1995:295 [ref. 22896], Randall et al. 1997:351 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:209 [ref. 23965], Randall 1999:23 [ref. 25829], Allen 2000:91 [ref. 37268], Parenti & Randall 2000:53 [ref. 24943], Bellwood in Randall & Lim 2000:630 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1019 [ref. 25182], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:218 [ref. 25480], Randall & Earle 2000:18 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:115 [ref. 25868], Bellwood 2001:3477 [ref. 26278], Hutchins 2001:40 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:1019 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:51 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:637 [ref. 27495], Lobel & Lobel 2004:74 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:23 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:125 [ref. 27715], Liao et al. 2004:530 [ref. 28045], Randall 2005:450 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1428 [ref. 29090], Motomura et al. 2010:176 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:733 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:165 [ref. 32988], Fricke et al. 2014:140 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:7 [ref. 33988], Koeda et al. 2016:80 [ref. 35333], Fricke et al. 2019:241 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Chlorurus microrhinos (Bleeker 1854). Labridae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) and Indonesia east to Micronesia and Pitcairn Group, north to Ryukyu Islands and Ogasawara Islands, south to Australia and Lord Howe Islands. Habitat: marine.

strongylocephalus, Scarus Bleeker [P.] 1855:439 [Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië v. 7 (no. 3); ref. 16941] Jakarta, Java, Indonesia. Holotype (unique): whereabouts unknown. Bleeker specimens: BMNH 1864.5.15.42 (1). •Synonym of Scarus gibbus Rüppell 1828 -- (Randall & Bruce 1983:22 [ref. 5412], Choat & Randall 1986:209 [ref. 8099]). •Valid as Chlorurus strongylocephalus (Bleeker 1855) -- (Randall et al. 1990:351 [ref. 15987], Randall 1995:295 [ref. 22896], Anderson et al. 1998:26 [ref. 23611], Myers 1999:209 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:454 [ref. 24106], Parenti & Randall 2000:53 [ref. 24943], Bellwood 2001:3479 [ref. 26278], Allen & Adrim 2003:51 [ref. 26830] as strongycephalus, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S115 [ref. 27377], Heemstra et al. 2004:3326 [ref. 27945], Randall 2005:450 [ref. 28239], Fricke et al. 2009:90 [ref. 30213], Satapoomin 2009:235 [ref. 30463], Allen & Erdmann 2012:735 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:267 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2018:297 [ref. 35805], Zajonz et al. 2019:91 [ref. 36871], Psomadakis et al. 2020:529 [ref. 37272], Randall 2022:274 [ref. 39936], Zajonz et al. 2022:219 [ref. 40522], Zajonz et al. 2023:305 [ref. 40679]). Current status: Valid as Chlorurus strongylocephalus (Bleeker 1855). Labridae. Distribution: Indian Ocean: East Africa, Oman, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Myanmar and western Indonesia. Habitat: marine.

ultramarinus, Callyodon Jordan [D. S.] & Seale [A.] in Seale 1906:63, Fig. 16 [Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History v. 4 (no. 1); ref. 3999] Mangareva Island, Gambier Islands, French Polynesia. Holotype (unique): USNM 51757. Paratypes or Jordan & Seale specimens: BPBM 813 [not 844], CAS-SU 8663 (3), USNM 51757 (1), 51835 (1), 51838 (1), 114645 (3). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:87 [ref. 12291]. Also appeared as new in Jordan & Seale (15 Dec.) 1906:332 [ref. 2497], earliest being researched. •Synonym of Scarus gibbus Rüppell 1829 -- (Randall & Bruce 1983:22 [ref. 5412], Choat & Randall 1986:209 [ref. 8099]). •Synonym of Chlorurus microrhinos (Bleeker 1854) -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:53 [ref. 24943]). Current status: Synonym of Chlorurus microrhinos (Bleeker 1854). Labridae. Habitat: marine.