African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Scarus sordidus Forsskål, 1775

AfReMaS name details

Scarus sordidus Forsskål, 1775

AphiaID

219116 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219116)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Chlorurus sordidus (Forsskål, 1775)

Rank

Species

Parent

Scarus Forsskål, 1775

Original name

Scarus sordidus Forsskål, 1775

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 30, x [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2021). FishBase. Scarus sordidus Forsskål, 1775. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219116 on 2026-04-02

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Scarus sordidus Forsskål, 1775. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219116 on 2026-04-02

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-24 18:26:33Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

1998-06-17 06:27:10Z

changed

Fondo, Esther

2008-02-28 13:41:07Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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original description Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 30, x [details]

basis of record Smith, J. L. B.; Smith, M. M. (1963). The fishes of Seychelles. 1st edition. <em>Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown.</em> i-viii + 1-215, Pls. 1-98. [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source Gon, O. (1996). Fifty years of fish systematics at the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology. <em>Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr.</em> 51: 45-78. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To FishBase
To GenBank (674 nucleotides; 465 proteins)
To ITIS