Scarus scaber

Scarus scaber, the five-saddle parrotfish or dusky-capped parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish, in the family Scaridae. It is native to Indian Ocean.

Scarus scaber
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Labriformes
Family: Scaridae
Genus: Scarus
Species:
S. scaber
Binomial name
Scarus scaber
Synonyms[3]
  • Callyodon scaber (Valenciennes, 1840)
  • Scarus pectoralis Valenciennes, 1840
  • Callyodon pectoralis (Valenciennes, 1840)

Description

This species grows to a maximum 37 cm in length and 900 g in weight.[3]

  • Initial phase (female)
  • Final phase (male)

Distribution

This species is widely distributed in the Indian Ocean (and around the islands therein) from western Thailand and northwest Indonesia in the east (southwards to Cocos-Keeling), and west to the coast of Africa (as far south as Natal and north to Red Sea and Gulf of Aden).[1][3]

Habitat

This species is either solitary, or forms small schools.[1]

References
  1. Choat, J.H.; Myers, R.; Russell, B.; et al. (2012). "Scarus scaber". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T190700A17790871. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T190700A17790871.en. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  2. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Scarus scaber Valenciennes, 1840".
  3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Scarus scaber" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
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