WoRMS taxon details
Cetoscarus ocellatus (Valenciennes, 1840)
712771 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:712771)
accepted
Species
Scarus ocellatus Valenciennes, 1840 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Scarus ocellatus Valenciennes, 1840) 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]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Cetoscarus ocellatus (Valenciennes, 1840). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=712771 on 2026-10-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Scarus ocellatus Valenciennes, 1840) 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]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., 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
To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Scarus ocellatus Valenciennes, 1840)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cetoscarus ocellatus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Scarus ocellatus Valenciennes, 1840)
To GenBank (2725 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To GenBank (2725 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Scarus ocellatus Valenciennes, 1840)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cetoscarus ocellatus FIN032931 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cetoscarus ocellatus FIN032932 Slide 120 mm)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Scarus ocellatus Valenciennes, 1840)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cetoscarus ocellatus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Scarus ocellatus Valenciennes, 1840)
To GenBank (2725 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To GenBank (2725 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Scarus ocellatus Valenciennes, 1840)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cetoscarus ocellatus FIN032931 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cetoscarus ocellatus FIN032932 Slide 120 mm)
Unreviewed
Hosted externally
Hosted externally
