Chlorurus strongylocephalus
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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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Scaridae |
| Genus: | Chlorurus |
| Species: | C. strongylocephalus |
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| Chlorurus strongylocephalus (Bleeker, 1855) | |
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References
- Choat, J.H.; Carpenter, K.E.; Clements, K.D.; et al. (2012). "Chlorurus strongylocephalus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T190742A17787219. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T190742A17787219.en. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Chlorurus strongylocephalus " in FishBase. August 2019 version.
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