Sparisoma

Peter Wirtz, Carlos Eduardo L. Ferreira, Sergio R. Floeter, Ronald Fricke, Joao Luiz Gasparini, Tomio Iwamoto, Luiz Rocha, Claudio L. S. Sampaio & Ulrich K. Schliewen, 2007, Coastal Fishes of Sao Tome and Principe islands, Gulf of Guinea (Eastern Atlantic Ocean) - an update., Zootaxa 1523, pp. 1-48 : 15

Sparisoma n. sp. (Figures 15 and 16)

SMNS 25275, 1 specimen, from Lagoa Azul, CAS 214635, 1 specimen, from off Marlin Beach Hotel, CAS 224080, 1 specimen caught by hook and line off a private dock near São Tomé airport. UFES 153 (1 specimen) Praia das Furnas, near Diogo Vaz, São Tomé. This species is common in the tropical eastern Atlantic and has been called Sparisoma rubripinne (Valenciennes, 1839) by many authors (e.g. Afonso et al. 1999; Brito et al. 1999). It is, however, the undescribed eastern Atlantic sister species to the Brazilian S. axillare . The species is currently being described by L. Rocha and A. Brito.