Parenti, Paolo and John E. Randall. 2000. An annotated checklist of the species of the Labroid fish families Labridae and Scaridae.
Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, No. 68, 97 pages.
An annotated checklist of the species of the fish families Labridae and Scaridae is presented; 541 valid species are recognized, including 68 genera and 453 species of labrids and 10 genera and 88 species of scarids. Thirty undescribed species of wrasses and two undescribed parrotfish species are also included. A list of nominal species is given, with their present assignments; nominal species of uncertain status are placed as
incertae sedis and listed separately. A list of
nomina nuda is also provided. The valid genera and species are listed alphabetically, with their synonyms and distributions. Examination of the original descriptions and type material (when extant) of previously unplaced nominal species of labroid fishes led to identification of 69 new synonyms. The generic names
Artisia de Beaufort, 1939 and
Emmeekia Jordan & Evermann, 1896 are here recognized as new synonyms of
Halichoeres Rüppell, 1835. For the Labridae, 65 new synonyms of valid species are listed.
Labrus psittaculus Richardson,1840, a valid species of
Pseudolabrus, is a primary homonym of
Labrus psittaculus Lacepède, 1801; the next available name for this species is
Labrichthys rubicunda Macleay, 1881 and the new combination
Pseudolabrus rubicundus is proposed. The following new combinations are included:
Pseudojulis inornatus Gilbert, 1890 is a valid species of
Pseudojuloides;
Xyrichtys perlas Wellington et al., 1994 is a valid species of
Novaculichthys. For Scaridae,
Sparus abildgaardi Bloch, 1791 is a senior synonym of
Sparisoma chrysopterum (Bloch & Schneider, 1801), but a request of the International Commission has been made to reject
abildgaardi in order to conserve
S. chrysopterum; and
Scarus visayanus Herre, 1933 is a new synonym of
Scarus tricolor Bleeker,1847.
Pseudoscarus microcheilos Bleeker, 1861 is a synonym of
Chlorurus strongylocephalus (Bleeker, 1854).
