Hipposcarus

{{Short description|Genus of ray-finned fishes}}

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| image = Hipposcarus longiceps.jpg

| image_caption = Hipposcarus longiceps

| image2 = Pez loro candelamoa (Hipposcarus harid), parque nacional Ras Muhammad, Egipto, 2022-03-30, DD 07.jpg

| image2_caption = Hipposcarus harid

| taxon = Hipposcarus

| authority = Smith, 1956

| type_species = Scarus harid

| type_species_authority = Forsskål, 1775{{Cof record|genid=6654|title=Hipposcarus|access-date=10 February 2020}}

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

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Hipposcarus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes, parrotfish from the family Labridae.[http://eol.org/pages/24258/overview Hipposcarus – Overview – Encyclopedia of Life][http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206458 WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Hipposcarus Smith, 1956] The two species in the genus are distributed in the Indo-Pacific.{{FishBase genus|genus=Hipposcarus|month=August|year=2019}}

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Category:Marine fish genera

Category:Taxa named by J. L. B. Smith

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