 | A review of Swainson's genera of fishes J Swain (1882) Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1882: 272-284 |
 | A synopsis of the fishes of North America C F In Jordan Lütken and C H Gilbert (1882) Bulletin of the United States National Museum 16: 1-1018 |
 | Descriptions of scaroid fishes from Havana and Key West, including five new species David S Jordan and J Swain (1884) Proceedings of the United States National Museum 7: 81-102 |
 | A list of fishes collected in the East Fork of White River, Indiana, with descriptions of two new species Charles H Gilbert (1884) Proceedings of the United States National Museum 7: 199-205 |
 | An identification of the figures of fishes in Catesby’s Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands David S Jordan (1884) Proceedings of the United States National Museum 7: 190-199 |
 | List of fishes collected at Havana, Cuba, in December, 1883, with notes and descriptions David S Jordan (1886) Proceedings of the United States National Museum 9: 31-55 |
 | A preliminary list of the fishes of the West Indies David S Jordan (1887) Proceedings of the United States National Museum 9: 554-608 |
 | Relations of temperature to vertebrae among fishes David Starr Jordan (1891) Proceedings of The United States National Museum 14: 107-120 |
 | Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. No. XVIII..List of fishes obtained in the harbor of Bahia, Brazil, and in adjacent waters David Starr Jordan (1891) Proceedings of The United States National Museum 13: 313-336 |
 | The families of synentognathous fishes and their nomenclature T N Gill (1896) Proceedings of the United States National Museum 18: 167-178 |
 | A review of the Sparidae and related families found in the waters of Japan D S Jordan and W F Thompson (1912) Proceedings of the United States National Museum 41: 521-601 |
 | The classification of the percoid fishes C T Regan (1913) Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12: 111-145 |
 | Fishes from the Virgin Islands, West Indies Henry W Fowler (1917) Copeia 41: 23-24 |
 | List of the fishes, types of Poey, in the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy L Howell Rivero (1938) Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 82: 169-227 |
 | A further contribution to the ichthyology of Venezuela. Leonard P Schultz (1949) Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 99: 1-211 |
 | New fish names and records G P Whitley (1951) Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales 1949-50: 61-68 |
 | THE EFFECT OF PARROT FISH THYROID EXTRACT ON THE RESPIRATORY METABOLISM OF THE WHITE RAT Dietrich C Smith and Frances C Brown (1952) Biol Bull 102: 278-286 |
 | Review of the parrotfishes family Scaridae Leonard P Schultz (1958) Bulletin of the United States National Museum 214: 1-143 |
 | Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas Islands. Volume 2. Families from Mullidae through Stromateidae Leonard P Schultz W M Chapman Ernest A Lachner Loren P Woods (1960) Bulletin of the United States National Museum 202: 1-438 |
 | THE EVOLUTION AND INTERRELATIONSHIPS OF THE ACTINOPTERYGIAN FISHES G V Lauder and K L Liem (1983) Bulletin of The Museum of Comparative Zoology 150(3): 95-197 |
 | Labroid intrarelationships revisited: morphological complexity, key innovations, and the study of comparative diversity Melanie L J Stiassny and J Jensen (1987) Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 151(5): 269-319 |
 | Catalogue of type specimens of recent fishes in Field Museum of Natural History Myriam Ibarra and Donald J Stewart (1987) Fieldiana Zoology (N. S.) 35: 1-112 |
 | Case 3051. Scarus chrysopterus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (currently Sparisoma chrysopterum; Osteichthyes, Perciformes): proposed conservation of the specific name and designation as the type species of Sparisoma Swainson, 1839 R L Moura and J E Randall (1998) Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 55: 151-154 |
 | Polly want a sponge? : Field examination of spongivory by Caribbean parrotfishes in reef and mangrove habitats M J Dunlap (1999) Memoirs of The Queensland Museum 44: 160-160 |
 | OPINION 1945 Scarus chrysopterus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (currently Sparisoma chiysopterum; Osteichthyes, Perciformes): specific name conserved and designated as the type species of Sparisoma Swainson, 1839 (2000) Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 57: 58-59 |