Scarus scaber

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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|image = Scarus scaber.JPG

|status = LC

|status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Choat, J.H. |author2=Myers, R. |author3=Russell, B. |author4=Clements, K.D. |author5=Rocha, L.A. |author6=Lazuardi, M.E. |author7=Muljadi, A. |author8=Pardede, S. |author9=Rahardjo, P. |date=2012 |title=Scarus scaber |volume=2012 |page=e.T190700A17790871 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T190700A17790871.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

|genus = Scarus

|species = scaber

|authority = Valenciennes, 1840{{Cite web | url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219114 |title = WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Scarus scaber Valenciennes, 1840}}

|synonyms = *Callyodon scaber (Valenciennes, 1840)

  • Scarus pectoralis Valenciennes, 1840
  • Callyodon pectoralis (Valenciennes, 1840)

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

}}

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.

Description

This species grows to a maximum 37 cm in length and 900 g in weight.

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|Scarus scaber female Maldives.JPG|Initial phase (female)

|Scarus scaber mâle.jpg|Final phase (male)

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Distribution

This 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).

Habitat

This species is either solitary, or forms small schools.

References