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Scarus pundulatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, 



vol 14, p. 195, 1839 (type locality: Martinique). 

 Scarus taeniopterus Desmarest in Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des 

 poissons, vol. 14, p. 195, 1839 (type locality: Cuba; type examined m IMua. 

 Nat. Hist. Nat. Paris, Cat. No. 1750; no color remains). 

 Scarus diadema Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol 14, 

 p. 198, 1839 (type locality: Martinique; type examined in Mus. Nat. Hist. 

 Nat. Paris, Cat. No. 1747). 

 Scarus flavomarginatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, 

 vol 14, p. 202, 1839 (type locality: Martinique; type examined m Mus. 

 Nat Hist. Nat.' Paris, Cat. No. 1746, 125 mm. standard length) . 

 Psuedoscarus taeniopterus Giinther (not of Desmarest), Catalogue of the fishes 



in the British Museum . . . , vol. 4, p. 226, 1862 (Trinidad). 



Scarus aracanga Giinther (not of Gunther 1862, p. 227), Catalogue of the fishes 



in the British Museum . . . , vol. 4, p. 209, 1862 (type locahty: Jamaica). 



Psuedoscarus aracanga Gunther (not of Gunther 1862, p. 209) Catalogue of the 



fishes in the British Museum . . . , vol. 4, p. 227, 1862 (type locality: 



Jamaica; type examined in British Museum, 1933.2.20.1, standard length 



145 mm.; pectoral rays ii,12). , - oo 100/1 



Scarus virginalis Jordan and Swain, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7, p. 88, 1884 



(type locality: Havana, Cuba; holotype USNM 3oOSO). 

 ScaruZllmani Jordan and Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat^Mus., vol. 9 p. 470, 1886 

 (type locality: Snapper Banks off Pensacola, Florida; holotype USNM 



Scarusll'Lnni Jordan in Jordan and Evermann Proc. U. S. Nat _Mus voL 9 

 p. 469, 1886 (type locality: Snapper Banks off Pensacola, Florida, holotype 



5ca™SeS' Jordan and Rutter, Proc. Acad^ Nat. Sd. Philadelphia p. m 

 1897 (type locality: Kingston, Jamaica) .-Jordan and Evermann, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. Bull. 47, pt. 3, p. 1654, pi. 245, fig. 614 1900). ....^e locality 



Pseudoscarus lineolatus Poey, Repertorio . . . , vol. 2, p. 239, 186/ (tjpe locality. 



Call^ofonmargarita Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 69, p. 133. 



fiff 1917 (tvpe locality: Col6n, Panamd). „,.,., i,- 



SpJLaluZm (no/of Poey) Fow.er, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phdadelph.a, 

 vol. 102, p. 75, fig. 8, 1950 (Cuba). 

 This species is characterized by having 3 rows of scales on check 

 ventral (third) row with 1 to 5 scales (usually 2 or 3) ; med.au prcdorsal 

 scales usually 7; pectoral rays usually ii, 12. . ,• * 



In aduU male, coloration of anal fin is characteristic, consisting of 

 two parallel brown lines separated by a pale interspace across middle 

 third of fin, with a brownish spot on membrane between each ray, in 

 center of interspace; opercular flap usually brownish. 



^n^ley (i« Longley and Hildebrand, 1941, p. 217) states th^at 

 on Uve specimens Z spots on anal fin are blue; and thaon dimming 

 fish he has observed a green stripe running horizon ally from upper 

 angle of opercle to dorsal margin of orbit, thence forward to meet 

 sta lar trTpe on opposite side, and continued posteriorly, from opercle 

 to baTeocaudalj'a' second stripe similar and parallel extendmg from 



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