Sealife guideThe midnight parrotfishScarus coelestinus

Taxonomy
  • Common name: Midnight parrotfish
  • French name: Poisson perroquet noir
  • Spanish name: Loro de medianoche
  • Scientific name: Scarus coelestinus (Valenciennes, 1840)
  • Family name: Scaridae
  • Order name: Perciformes
  • Class name: Actinopterygii
Did you know ?
The midnight parrotfish is listed as many other marine species within The IUCN Red List of threatened species. The midnight parrotfish appears in the IUCN Red List since 2012 within the category Data Deficient !
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(Scarus ghobban)
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(Scarus rubroviolaceus)
Blue parrotfish (Scarus coeruleus)
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(Scarus coeruleus)
Swarthy Parrotfish (Scarus niger)
Swarthy Parrotfish
(Scarus niger)
Princess parrotfish (Scarus taeniopterus)
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(Scarus taeniopterus)
Rusty parrotfish (Scarus ferrugineus)
Rusty parrotfish
(Scarus ferrugineus)
Queen parrotfish (Scarus vetula)
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(Sparisoma viride)
European parrotfish (Sparisoma cretense)
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(Sparisoma cretense)
Redband parrotfish (Sparisoma aurofrenatum)
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(Sparisoma aurofrenatum)
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