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Scarus festivus Valenciennes, 1840

219105  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219105)

accepted
Species
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 clear lagoon and seaward reefs to a depth of at least 30 m (Ref. 1602). Feeds on benthic algae (Ref. 3488).  
Description Found clear lagoon and seaward reefs to a depth of at least 30 m (Ref. 1602). Feeds on benthic algae (Ref. 3488). [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Scarus festivus Valenciennes, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219105 on 2025-05-31
Date
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1997-02-24 18:26:33Z
created
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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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 Callyodon lunula Snyder, 1908) Snyder, J. O. (1908). Descriptions of eighteen new species and two new genera of fishes from Japan and the Riu Kiu Islands. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 35 (no. 1635): 93-111. [details] 

original description (of Callyodon verweyi de Beaufort, 1940) de Beaufort, L.F. (1940). The fishes of the Indo-Australian archipelago. VIII. Percomorphi (continued). Cirrhitoidea, Labriformes, Pomacentriformes. <em>E.J. Brill, Leiden. v.8:1-508.</em> [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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] OpenAccess publication

Other

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  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Description Found clear lagoon and seaward reefs to a depth of at least 30 m (Ref. 1602). Feeds on benthic algae (Ref. 3488). [details]
    Definitions

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LanguageName 
English festive parrotfish  [details]
Japanese ツキノワブダイ  [details]