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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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Scaridae |
| Genus: | Scarus |
| Species: | S. scaber
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| Scarus scaber Valenciennes, 1840[2]
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Description
editThis species grows to a maximum 37 cm in length and 900 g in weight.[3]
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Initial phase (female) -
Final phase (male)
Distribution
editThis 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
editThis species is either solitary, or forms small schools.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Scarus scaber Valenciennes, 1840".
- ^ a b c Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Scarus scaber". FishBase. December 2019 version.