Dark-capped parrotfish

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{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Allen, G. |author2=Gon, O. |date=2012 |title=Scarus oviceps |volume=2012 |page=e.T154960A17896485 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T154960A17896485.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| image = Dark-capped Parrotfish.jpg

| taxon = Scarus oviceps

| authority = Valenciennes, 1840

}}

The dark-capped parrotfish (Scarus oviceps), also known as the blue parrotfish, egghead parrotfish or yellow-barred parrotfish{{cite web | title = Scarus oviceps | work = Fishes of Australia | access-date = 14 February 2020 | url = https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/927 | publisher = Museums Victoria }} is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Scaridae. This species inhabits coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific from Mauritius in the east to the Tuamotus and the Line Islands in the west, north to the Ryukyu Islands, Japan and south to Shark Bay, Western Australia and the Great Barrier Reef.{{FishBase|Scarus|oviceps|month=December|year=2019}}