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<i>Scarus scaber</i>

Scarus scaber

Species of fish

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.

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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. [1]
    Choat, J.H.; Myers, R.; Russell, B.; Clements, K.D.; Rocha, L.A.; Lazuardi, M.E.; Muljadi, A.; Pardede, S.; Rahardjo, P. (2012). "Scarus scaber". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T190700A17790871. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T190700A17790871.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. [2]
    "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Scarus scaber Valenciennes, 1840".
  3. [3]
    Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Scarus scaber" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
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