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Scarus oviceps

Wū Yeyenga (PK)

Dark-capped Parrotfish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Dark-capped Parrotfish, Egghead Parrotfish, Variable Parrotfish; German Purpurkappen-Papageifisch; French Perroquet à Capuchon Sombre

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Wū Yeyenga (PK)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Cocos - Societies; n. to s.Japan; s. to GBR

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group. (RR) PLUS:; Marine, near-shore, lagoon, reef-flats & outer reef-slope, to 10m

KEY FEATURES: To 30cm SL. TP (male) body blue-green with pink scale-margins; Head, the upper-half & back to mid-Dorsal dark coloured; below eye a wide bright blue-green stripe extends to Pectoral base. IP (female) body pale-grey shading to white below with two diagonal yellow bars; Head, the upper-half dark-grey; below eye a yellow stripe extends to Pectoral base.

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
P

Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
			P

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Scarus oviceps Valenciennes, 1840
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Labroidei; SCARIDAE, Scarinae

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: field photo S.Afsenius1990s (GMc00). Pukapuka: informant reports at NBSAP meeting, 2/2004.

References:
text p.196 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 109g Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.352 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.489 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 109-03 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes

Data Update History (information):
zB02, zD02

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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