Scarus festivus

Scarus festivus, the festive parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish in the family Scaridae. This species has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution and is found from the coast of East Africa east as far as the Tuamotu islands and north to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan and south to Lord Howe Island, Australia. This is an uncommon species which is found in clear lagoons and off seaward reefs where it grazes on benthic algae.[2]

Festive parrotfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Labriformes
Family: Scaridae
Genus: Scarus
Species:
S. festivus
Binomial name
Scarus festivus
Synonyms[2]
  • Callyodon lunula Snyder, 1908
  • Scarus lunula (Snyder, 1908)
  • Callyodon verweyi de Beaufort, 1940
  • Margaritodon verweyi (de Beaufort, 1940)

References
  1. Allen, G. & Gon, O. (2012). "Scarus festivus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T154677A17895868. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T154677A17895868.en. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Scarus festivus" in FishBase. December 2019 version.


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