Scarus prasiognathos

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| image = XRF-Scarus prasiognathos.png

| image_caption = Scarus prasiognathos (male)

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Allen, G. |date=2012 |title=Scarus prasiognathos |volume=2012 |page=e.T154676A17898392 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T154676A17898392.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| taxon = Scarus prasiognathos

| authority = Valenciennes, 1840

| synonyms = *Scarus chlorodon Jenyns, 1842

• Scarus singaporensis Bleeker, 1852
• Callyodon singaporensis (Bleeker, 1852)
• Pseudoscarus singaporensis (Bleeker, 1852)
• Scarus janthochir Bleeker, 1853
• Callyodon janthochir (Bleeker, 1853)
• Pseudoscarus janthochir (Bleeker, 1853)

| synonyms_ref = {{Fishbase|Scarus|prasiognathos|month=December|year=2019}}

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Scarus prasiognathos, the Singapore parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish, in the family Scaridae. It is native to the eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans, where it lives in coral reefs.

This species was first formally described in 1840 by the French naturalist Achille Valenciennes (1794-1865) with the type locality given as New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago.{{Cof record|spid=17353|title=Scarus prasiognathos|access-date = 14 February 2019}}

Image:NishikiBD.jpg|immature juvenile

Image:Scarus prasiognathos female.JPG|initial phase (female)

Image:Scarus prasiognathus Landaagiraavaru.JPG|final phase (male)