Perroquet à capuchon combre, Perroquet banane, Perroquet vert, Blue Parrotfish, Darkcap Parrotfish, Darkcapped Parrotfish, Egghead Parrotfish, Variable Parrotfish, Yellow-barred Parrotfish, Purpurkappen-Papageifisch, Hime-budai, ヒメブダイ, 鹦哥, 疣鹦哥鱼, 疣鸚哥魚, 黄鞍鹦嘴鱼,

Etymologie
Scarus : du Latin, scarus = scare, ou poisson de mer (scare est le nom vernaculaire générique des poissons-perroquets). Le mot latin est dérivé du Grec, skaros, de même sens. Les Grecs connaissaient cette famille à travers Sparisoma cretense (Linnaeus, 1758), présent sur leurs côtes, Aristote en décrit les viscères. Le genre a été décrit la première fois par Pehr Forsskål en 1775.
oviceps : du Latin, ovum = ovale, de la forme d'un oeuf + du suffixe Latin, -ceps = tête.
Description originale : Scarus oviceps Valenciennes, 1840 - Localité type : Tahiti, îles de la Société.

Synonymes
Callyodon lazulinus (Jordan & Seale, 1906)
Pseudoscarus knerii (Steindachner, 1887)
Pseudoscarus zonatus (Macleay, 1883)

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• Juvenile: body pale yellow, upper snout, occiput and dorsum to end of spinous dorsal dark, two pale bars dividing dark dorsal pigmentation, dark coloration not extending below mid-line of body; Characteristic darker band from snout, through eye, to beyond opercular membrane, cheek below this abruptly paler; Fins hyaline yellow.
• Inital phase: lower body yellowish brown, becoming lighter ventrally; Scales may be edged with grey; Upper body darker, becoming less pronounced posteriorly; Snout, occiput and dorsum to level of 8th dorsal spine dark brown to black; dorsum with two yellow saddles, 1st between 7th spine and first dorsal ray, 2nd between 6th and 7th dorsal rays, these pale saddles diagonal and pointing orward; Dorsal fin dusky, distal margin reddish brown; anal and pelvic fins reddish yellow; Caudal hyaline light brown; Pectoral hyaline yellowish, upper rays darker; Dental plates white.
• Terminal phase: body blue-green with anterior portion of each scale pinkish, body coloration becoming paler ventrally; Head above lower edge of eye and body above pectoral fin and anterior to 8th dorsal spine abruptly dark purplish; Cheek lighter blue-green, separated from darker region of head by greenish band running from snout, below eye to opercular margin; lips blue-green and a blue-green bar on chin; Dorsal and anal fins greenish with narrow blue margins; Caudal fin greenish with posterior blue margin; Pectorals greenish, becoming lighter ventrally, upper rays yellowish green; Pelvics blue-green, spine and anterior rays darker; Dental plates green.