WoRMS taxon details
Chlorurus spilurus (Valenciennes, 1840)
712772 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:712772)
accepted
Species
Scarus spilurus Valenciennes, 1840 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Scarus spilurus 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. (2025). FishBase. Chlorurus spilurus (Valenciennes, 1840). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=712772 on 2025-06-13
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Scarus spilurus 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). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [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
To Barcode of Life (29 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Scarus spilurus Valenciennes, 1840)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chlorurus spilurus)
To FishBase (from synonym Scarus spilurus Valenciennes, 1840)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Chlorurus spilurus, Australia, by Kittel, S.W.)
To Fishipedia
To FishSounds
To GenBank (31 nucleotides; 26 proteins)
To GenBank (31 nucleotides; 26 proteins) (from synonym Scarus spilurus Valenciennes, 1840)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Chlorurus spilurus USNM 401144 photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Chlorurus spilurus USNM 435041 photograph lateral view)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Scarus spilurus Valenciennes, 1840)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chlorurus spilurus)
To FishBase (from synonym Scarus spilurus Valenciennes, 1840)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Chlorurus spilurus, Australia, by Kittel, S.W.)
To Fishipedia
To FishSounds
To GenBank (31 nucleotides; 26 proteins)
To GenBank (31 nucleotides; 26 proteins) (from synonym Scarus spilurus Valenciennes, 1840)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Chlorurus spilurus USNM 401144 photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Chlorurus spilurus USNM 435041 photograph lateral view)
