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Scarus schlegeli

Tomore (PL)

Schlegel's Parrotfish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Schlegel's Parrotfish, Yellowband Parrotfish, Cut Parrotfish, Banded Parrotfish; German Schegels Papageifisch; French Perroquet de Schlegel

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Ū (AT), Tomore (PL), Koti (TS TW), Tomore / Koti (MH), Wūkoti (PK); Other Polynesian - Paati Tapu / Pahoro Tore (TAH)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Indonesia - Tuamotus; n. to s.Japan; s. to New Caledonia - Rapa

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Lagoons and forereef slope to 50+m. in areas of rich coral growth and near vertical relief.Juveniles school in lagoons and on reef-flats PLUS: ; Marine, near-shore, lagoons, reef-flats and outer reef-slopes to 20m

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: Favoured.

KEY FEATURES: To 30cm SL. INITIAL PHASE pale grey to deep red-brown, ± 2-4 pale bars; TERMINAL PHASE MALE dark purple-green with aple dorsal head and anterior dorsal-body, usually extending ventally as a pale belt; 1-2 dark yellow bars on dorsal body.

SIMILAR SPECIES: A very distinctive TP parrotfish, with at least one strong yellow bar on dorsal mid-body, hence alternate name of Yellowband Parrotfish..

Cook Islands Distribution

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

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
			P		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 schlegeli (Bleeker, 1861)
SYNONYMS: Pseudoscarus schlegeli; Scarus venosus [mistaken G&S85]

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

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Palmerston: Photo63 as Scarus venosus (G&S85); Listed (Preston95). Pukapuka: fieldspecimen+photo, 2/2004, G.McCormack with ID as Scarus schlegeli. Suwarrow: field ID N.Sims (Sims EIA99).

References:
text p.197 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 111a Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.354 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.484 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 109-02 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 81-07 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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