Sealife guideThe blue parrotfishScarus coeruleus

Taxonomy

Common name: Blue parrotfish
French name: Poisson perroquet bleu
Scientific name: Scarus coeruleus (Edwards, 1771)
Family name: Scaridae
Order name: Perciformes
Class name: Actinopterygii

Did you know ?

The blue parrotfish is listed as many other marine species within The IUCN Red List of threatened species. The blue parrotfish appears in the IUCN Red List since 2012 within the category Least Concern !

The blue parrotfish (Scarus coeruleus)

Within the same genus

Blue-barred parrotfish
(Scarus ghobban)

Ember parrotfish
(Scarus rubroviolaceus)

Swarthy Parrotfish
(Scarus niger)

Midnight parrotfish
(Scarus coelestinus)

Princess parrotfish
(Scarus taeniopterus)

Rusty parrotfish
(Scarus ferrugineus)

Queen parrotfish
(Scarus vetula)

Within the same family

Bumphead parrotfish
(Bolbometopon muricatum)

Stoplight parrotfish
(Sparisoma viride)

European parrotfish
(Sparisoma cretense)

Redband parrotfish
(Sparisoma aurofrenatum)

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(Chaetodon austriacus)

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(Pseudupeneus maculatus)

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(Cephalopholis urodeta)

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(Lutjanus ehrenbergii)

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