IRMNG - Chlorurus Swainson, 1839

IRMNG taxon details

Chlorurus Swainson, 1839

IRMNG_ID

1284225 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1284225)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Scaridae Rafinesque, 1810

Synonymised names

Pseudocarus · unaccepted (misspelling)

Pseudoscaris · unaccepted

Pseudoscarus Bleeker, 1861 · unaccepted (synonym)

Xanothon Smith, 1956 · unaccepted (synonym)

Ypsiscarus Schultz, 1958 · unaccepted

Direct children (25)

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Species Chlorurus atrilunula (Randall & Bruce, 1983)
Species Chlorurus bleekeri (de Beaufort, 1940)
Species Chlorurus bowersi (Snyder, 1909)
Species Chlorurus capistratoides (Bleeker, 1847)
Species Chlorurus cyanescens (Valenciennes, 1840)
Species Chlorurus enneacanthus (Lacepède, 1802)
Species Chlorurus frontalis (Valenciennes, 1840)
Species Chlorurus genazonatus (Randall & Bruce, 1983)
Species Chlorurus gibbus (Rüppell, 1829)
Species Chlorurus japanensis (Bloch, 1789)
Species Chlorurus microrhinos (Bleeker, 1854)
Species Chlorurus oedema (Snyder, 1909)
Species Chlorurus perspicillatus (Steindachner, 1879)
Species Chlorurus rhakoura Randall & Anderson, 1997
Species Chlorurus sordidus (Forsskål, 1775)
Species Chlorurus spilurus (Valenciennes, 1840)
Species Chlorurus strongycephalus (Bleeker, 1854)
Species Chlorurus strongylocephalus (Bleeker, 1855)
Species Chlorurus troschelii (Bleeker, 1853)
Species Chlorurus bicolor (Rüppell, 1829) accepted as Cetoscarus bicolor (Rüppell, 1829)
Species Chlorurus gibbosus (Rüppell, 1829) accepted as Chlorurus gibbus (Rüppell, 1829)
Species Chlorurus japonensis (Bloch, 1789) accepted as Chlorurus japanensis (Bloch, 1789)
Species Chlorurus oedemus (Snyder, 1909) accepted as Chlorurus oedema (Snyder, 1909)
Species Chlorurus pulchellus (Rüppell, 1835) accepted as Cetoscarus bicolor (Rüppell, 1829)
Species Chlorurus pyrrhurus (Jordan & Seale, 1906) accepted as Chlorurus japanensis (Bloch, 1789)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

N. H. Fishes etc., 2, 173
page(s): 227 [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic remark pro Chlorogaster Swainson 1839 (Nomen. Zool.). (as subgenus of Petronason). Spelled Chlorogaster by Swainson on p. 173,...

Taxonomic remark pro Chlorogaster Swainson 1839 (Nomen. Zool.). (as subgenus of Petronason). Spelled Chlorogaster by Swainson on p. 173, without species; changed to Chlorurus on p. 227. (Eschmeyer). [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2024). Chlorurus Swainson, 1839. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1284225 on 2024-04-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

2016-11-22 11:10:04Z

changed

db_admin

2017-11-22 13:18:58Z

changed

Decock, Wim

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original description N. H. Fishes etc., 2, 173
page(s): 227 [details]

basis of record SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998 [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

verified source for family Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version. , available online at https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

verified source for family WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

current name source Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version. , available online at https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

current name source WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]

extant flag source SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998 [details]

habitat flag source FishBase [details]

original description (of Ypsiscarus Schultz, 1958) Bull. U.S. Natn. Mus. No. 214
page(s): 47 [details]

original description (of Xanothon Smith, 1956) Ichthyol. Bull. Rhodes Univ. No. 1
page(s): 4 [details]

original description (of Pseudoscarus Bleeker, 1861) Versl. Meded. Akad. Amsterdam, 12
page(s): 230 [details]

From other sources

Descriptive info From FishBase: Brackish + Marine. FishBase flag: All Marine. [details]

Nomenclatural status orthographia [details]

Subfamily Scarinae [details]

Type species as cited Scarus gibbus Rüppell 1829 [details]

To BioNames database (from synonym Ypsiscarus Schultz, 1958)
To BioNames database (from synonym Xanothon Smith, 1956)
To ION (Index to Organism Names) (from synonym Ypsiscarus Schultz, 1958)
To ION (Index to Organism Names) (from synonym Xanothon Smith, 1956)
To WoRMS (from synonym Xanothon Smith, 1956)
To WoRMS
To WoRMS (from synonym Pseudocarus)
To WoRMS (from synonym Pseudoscarus Bleeker, 1861)