WoRMS taxon details
Scarus ovifrons Temminck & Schlegel, 1846
276056 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:276056)
accepted
Species
Ypsiscarus ovifrons (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Temminck, C. J.; Schlegel, H. (1846). Pisces. <em>In: Siebold, P. F. de (ed.): Fauna Japonica, sive descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam ... suscepto annis 1823-1830 collegit, notis, observationibus et adumbrationibus illustravit Ph. Fr. de Siebold. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] (A. Arnz et soc.).</em> Parts 10-14: 173-269. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Scarus ovifrons Temminck & Schlegel, 1846. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=276056 on 2025-08-30
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Nomenclature
original description
Temminck, C. J.; Schlegel, H. (1846). Pisces. <em>In: Siebold, P. F. de (ed.): Fauna Japonica, sive descriptio animalium, quae in itinere per Japoniam ... suscepto annis 1823-1830 collegit, notis, observationibus et adumbrationibus illustravit Ph. Fr. de Siebold. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] (A. Arnz et soc.).</em> Parts 10-14: 173-269. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
context source (HKRMS)
Hong Kong marine fish database. <em>AFCD.</em> , available online at https://www.hk-fish.net/en/fish/introduction/ [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | アオブダイ | [details] |
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Scarus ovifrons)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Scarus ovifrons, Chinese Taipei, by Randall, J.E.)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Scarus ovifrons FIN033123 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Scarus ovifrons)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Scarus ovifrons, Chinese Taipei, by Randall, J.E.)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Scarus ovifrons FIN033123 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
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