WoRMS taxon details
Scarus russelii Valenciennes, 1840
219135 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219135)
accepted
Species
Scarus russelli Valenciennes, 1840 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Xanothon fowleri Smith, 1956 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes A. (1840). Histoire naturelle des poissons. <em>Tome quatorzième. Suite du livre seizième. Labroïdes. Livre dix-septième. Des Malacoptérygiens. Pitois-Levrault, Paris.</em> v. 14: i-xxii + 2 pp. + 1-464 + 4 pp., Pls. 389-420. [details]
Description Found in shallow water. Grazes on sand patches. Often seen in markets.
Description Found in shallow water. Grazes on sand patches. Often seen in markets. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Scarus russelii Valenciennes, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219135 on 2025-06-28
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Nomenclature
original description
Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes A. (1840). Histoire naturelle des poissons. <em>Tome quatorzième. Suite du livre seizième. Labroïdes. Livre dix-septième. Des Malacoptérygiens. Pitois-Levrault, Paris.</em> v. 14: i-xxii + 2 pp. + 1-464 + 4 pp., Pls. 389-420. [details]
original description (of Xanothon fowleri Smith, 1956) Smith, J. L. B. (1956). The parrot fishes of the family Callyodontidae of the western Indian Ocean. <em>Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University.</em> No. 1: 1-23, Pls. 41-45. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Xanothon fowleri Smith, 1956) Smith, J. L. B. (1956). The parrot fishes of the family Callyodontidae of the western Indian Ocean. <em>Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University.</em> No. 1: 1-23, Pls. 41-45. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [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] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Found in shallow water. Grazes on sand patches. Often seen in markets. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | eclipse parrotfish | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Xanothon fowleri Smith, 1956)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Scarus russelii)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Xanothon fowleri Smith, 1956)
To FishBase (from synonym Scarus russelli Valenciennes, 1840)
To FishBase images (Scarus russelii, Seychelles, by Randall, J.E.)
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Scarus russelii FIN033168 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Scarus russelii FIN033171 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Xanothon fowleri Smith, 1956)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Scarus russelii)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Xanothon fowleri Smith, 1956)
To FishBase (from synonym Scarus russelli Valenciennes, 1840)
To FishBase images (Scarus russelii, Seychelles, by Randall, J.E.)
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Scarus russelii FIN033168 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Scarus russelii FIN033171 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
