Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Sparisoma cretense (Linnaeus, 1758) (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Calliodon rubiginosus (Valenciennes, 1840) (synonym)

Euscarus cretensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)

Labrus cretensis Linnaeus, 1758 (synonym)

Scarus canariensis Valenciennes, 1838 (synonym)

Scarus cretensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)

Scarus mutabilis Lowe, 1838 (synonym)

Scarus rubiginoides Guichenot, 1865 (synonym)

Scarus rubiginosus Valenciennes, 1840 (synonym)

Scarus siculus Cocco, 1846 (synonym)

Sparidosoma cretense (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)

Sparisoma cretensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)

Sparisoma flavescens (non Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (misapplied name)

Common names:

异齿鹦鲷 Mandarin Chinese

異齒鸚鯛 Mandarin Chinese

İskaroz balığı Turkish

肩斑真鸚嘴魚 Mandarin Chinese

肩斑真鹦嘴鱼 Mandarin Chinese

ﺔﻟﺰﻗ Arabic

Ghazla Arabic

Papağan balığı Turkish

Σκάρος Greek

Almindelig Papegøjefisk Danish

Bidião Creole, Portuguese

Bodião Creole, Portuguese, Portuguese

Cucca Italian

Europæisk papegøjefisk Danish

Kretensisk papegojfisk Swedish

Loro viejo Spanish

Martspan Maltese

Martzpan Maltese

Marzapani Italian

Marzipan Maltese

Marzpan Maltese

Papagaio Creole, Portuguese, Portuguese

Papagaio-velho Portuguese

Papageifisch German

Papigaca Croatian

Parrotfish English

Peixe-papagaio Portuguese

Perroquet French

Perroquet vieillard French

Pisci pappajaddu Italian

Scaro Italian

Scaro di Creta Italian

Seepapagei German

Skaros Greek

Tuddu Italian

Veja Portuguese

Vella Catalan

Viela colorada Spanish

Zilleyq Arabic

Classification:

Animalia

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Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

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Order Perciformes

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Family Scaridae

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Genus Sparisoma

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Distribution:

Western Sahara; Turkey; Spain; Senegal; Sao Tome and Principe; Portugal; Morocco; Mediterranean Sea; Mediterranean and Black Sea; Mauritania; Malta; Madeira Islands; Lebanon; Italy; Iberian Coastal; Eastern Atlantic: Portugal, Azores and Madeira south to the Canary Islands and Senegal. Mediterranean Sea: more common in the eastern and southern coasts.; Cape Verde; Canary Current; Canary Islands; Azores Islands; Atlantic, Northeast; Atlantic, Eastern Central; Atlantic Ocean; Angola; Aegean Sea

Additional data:

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Group expert : Westneat M., Data last modified by FishBase 29-Apr-1996

Online resource:

http://www.fishbase.org/...


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:404f1efd-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009


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