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ember parrotfish

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Choat, J.H. |author2=Myers, R. |author3=Clements, K.D. |author4=Russell, B. |author5=Rocha, L.A. |author6=Lazuardi, M.E. |author7=Muljadi, A. |author8=Pardede, S. |author9=Rahardjo, P. |date=2012 |title=Scarus rubroviolaceus |volume=2012 |page=e.T190731A17781477 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T190731A17781477.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| image = Ember parrotfish, Scarus rubroviolaceus - terminal phase (6073675545).jpg

| image_caption = Male

| image2= Loro bicolor (Scarus rubroviolaceus), Cabo Pulmo, Baja California, México, 2024-12-19, DD 18.jpg

| image2_caption = Female

| taxon = Scarus rubroviolaceus

| authority = Bleeker, 1847{{ITIS | ID = 170880 | taxon = Scarus rubroviolaceus | year = | date = 27 May 2014}}

| synonyms = *Callyodon rubroviolaceus (Bleeker, 1847)

  • Scarops rubroviolaceus (Bleeker, 1847)
  • Pseudoscarus jordani Jenkins, 1901
  • Callyodon jordani (Jenkins, 1901)
  • Scarops jordani (Jenkins, 1901)
  • Scarus jordani (Jenkins, 1901)
  • Callyodon ruberrimus Jordan & Seale, 1906
  • Callyodon africanus J.L.B. Smith, 1955
  • Margaritodon africanus (J.L.B. Smith, 1955)

| synonyms_ref = {{Fishbase|Scarus|rubroviolaceus|month=December|year-2019}}

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The ember parrotfish (Scarus rubroviolaceus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish, in the family Scaridae. It is native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is also known as the bicolor parrotfish and the redlip parrotfish.

Distribution

The ember parrotfish is widespread and abundant. It has been found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with its range including Japan, eastern Africa, and the Hawaiian islands.

Description

The species is sexually dimorphic, with the males possessing a bright, greenish-blue color while the females are a duller brown.{{Cite web | url=http://www.marinelifephotography.com/fishes/parrotfishes/scarus-rubroviolaceus.htm |title = Redlip Parrotfish, Scarus rubroviolaceus}}

Habitat and behavior

Diet includes aquatic plants and benthic algae, which scrape off rocks using their beak. Ember Parrotfish shows sequential hermaphroditism meaning it changes its sex at some point in its life. Juvenile Ember Parrotfish has undifferentiated sex. As it grows, at a body length of about 32 cm at about 2.6 years old, it matures into a female who is reddish brown. It remains as a female for quite some time and when it grows further, at a body length of 37cm it is about 13 years old, it changes its sex into a male. However, some remain female throughout their lives. The Ember Parrotfish also lives up to 20 years.Deshpande, Sujata, and Karan Deshpande. "Life Under Water: Ember Parrotfish." Resonance, vol. 27, no. 8, 2022, pp. 1469–1469, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-022-1440-0.

Importance to humans

The ember parrotfish is commercially fished, and can be kept in saltwater aquariums.

Etymology

The genus name, Scarus, comes from the Greek word "skaros", meaning "parrotfish".

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External links

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Category:Scarus

Category:Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker

Category:Fish described in 1847

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