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Scarus rubroviolaceus

Redlip Parrotfish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Redlip Parrotfish, Black-veined Red Parrotfish, Meadow Parrotfish, Ember Parrotfish; French Perroquet Prairie (M), Perroquet Lie de Vin (F)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Tuamotu, Hawai‘i - Panama; n. to s.Japan, s. to Rarotonga

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Marine, near-shore, outer reef slope to 30m

KEY FEATURES: To 50cm SL, very wary. Snout blunt, and more bulbous with age. Forward half of IP and TP usually abruptly darker. IP slightly concave tail, reddish brown; body scales with black streaks; fins red. TP lunate tail; blue-green with pink wash on sides; teeth blue-green, upper lip pink then blue-green, lower lip blue-green then pink then blue-green; fins red-orange with blue edges.

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Cook Islands Distribution

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

Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW

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 rubroviolaceus Bleeker, 1847
SYNONYMS: Scarops rubroviolaceus; Scarus jordani

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

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: fieldsight, IP, 6/2001, Teina Rongo, Arorangi (off Edgewater), 30m, ID T.Rongo.

References:
text p.197 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 110gh Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.354 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
plate 105-04 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 81-06 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....
Species No. #0437 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, 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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