Biology:Chlorurus strongylocephalus

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Chlorurus strongylocephalus
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Labriformes
Family: Scaridae
Genus: Chlorurus
Species:
C. strongylocephalus
Binomial name
Chlorurus strongylocephalus
(Bleeker, 1855)
Synonyms[2]
  • Scarus strongylocephalus Bleeker, 1855
  • Callyodon strongylocephalus (Bleeker, 1855)

Chlorurus strongylocephalus, commonly known as the steephead parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish from the family Scaridae which is native to the Indian Ocean, where it lives in coral reefs.[2] Its range extends from the Gulf of Aden and Socotra down the coast of East Africa as far south as Mozambique and across the Indian Ocean to western Indonesia.[1] It forms a species complex with Chlorurus gibbus of the Red Sea and Chlorurus microrhinos of the west-central Pacific.[2]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Choat, J.H.; Carpenter, K.E.; Clements, K.D.; Rocha, L.A.; Russell, B.; Myers, R.; Lazuardi, M.E.; Muljadi, A. et al. (2012). "Chlorurus strongylocephalus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T190742A17787219. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T190742A17787219.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/190742/17787219. Retrieved 20 November 2021. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Chlorurus strongylocephalus " in FishBase. August 2019 version.

Wikidata ☰ Q2262878 entry