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Scarus frenatus

Vaiā (AK)

Bridled Parrotfish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Bridled Parrotfish, Fall Parrotfish, Red Parrotfish, Vermiculate Parrotfish; German Grünbürzel-Papageifisch; French Perroquet Feuille Morte

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Ū Kiva (AT), U‘u (MT), Vaiā / U‘u (AK), Pakati < Koti (PL), Koti (TS TW), Wū Uluulu-akau?? [M] (PK); Other Polynesian - Paati (TAH), Pahoro Uteute

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Ducie; n. to s.Japan; s. to Lord Howe - Rapa

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; In lagoons and on forereef slopes. PLUS: Photo PL (Grange/Singleton); Marine, near-shore

KEY FEATURES: To 35cm SL. Lips cover most of dental plats and nose overshoots mouth; 0-2 canines on upper plate; IP tail truncate and TP tail double-emarginate with increasing lobes. INITIAL PHASE brown to red-brown; topside and head pale brown unmarked; midside scales dark centred, hindside 6 dark stripes; fins and tail red. TERMINAL PHASE MALE blue-green body and head, with pale band around hind-body and base of tail; cheeks or lower half of head pale pinkish-green.

SIMILAR SPECIES: IP very distinctive with the 6 dark hindward stripes. TP pale posterior band and cheeks distinctive.

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 frenatus Lacepède, 1802
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Labroidei; SCARIDAE, Scarinae

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Aitutaki: fieldsight-IP, lagoon, 12/2000, GMcC. Palmerston: Photo62 as female Scarus sordidus (G&S85), lower fish in photo re-ID J.E.Randall as S. frenatus IP (Sims88). Pukapuka: fieldspecimen+photo, 2/2004, G.McCormack with ID as Scarus frenatus.

References:
text p.195 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 108c Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.348 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.482 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 105-07 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 80-06 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....

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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