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Scarus quoyi

Quoy's Parrotfish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Quoy's Parrotfish; French Perroquet de Quoy

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE India - Vanuatu, Cooks, n. to Japan, s. to N.Caledonia

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Marine, near-shore, outer reef-slope, to 20m

KEY FEATURES: To 25cm SL. INITIAL PHASE grey-brown without distinctive markings. TERMINAL MALES: Blue-green with scaled edged red to pink. Green snout and cheeks. Tail-stalk green. Dorsal fin mainly orange with a blue margin. Anal red-brown with blue margin. Tail yellow-green with blue margins top and bottom. Pectoral fins blue with dark stripe in upper section.

SIMILAR SPECIES: See under Violetline Parrotfish (Scarus globiceps).

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

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 quoyi Valenciennes, 1840
SYNONYMS: Scarus blochii [mis-ID]

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

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Aitutaki: fieldspecimen+photo, June 2003, Kendall Clements ID as Scarus quoyi giving a range extension from Vanuatu.

References:
text p.197 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 110e Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.520 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
plate 108-07 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 82-10 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....
Species No. 841 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

Data Update History (information):
zB04a, zD04a

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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