Sealife guideThe blue-barred parrotfishScarus ghobban
Taxonomy
- Common name: Blue-barred parrotfish
- French name: Poisson perroquet barbe bleue, poisson perroquet crème, poisson perroquet souris, poisson perroquet à bandes bleues, poisson perroquet à écailles jaunes
- Spanish name: Loro barbazul
- Scientific name: Scarus ghobban (Forsskål, 1775)
- Family name: Scaridae
- Order name: Perciformes
- Class name: Actinopterygii
Did you know ?
The blue-barred parrotfish is listed as many other marine species within The
IUCN Red List of threatened species. The blue-barred parrotfish appears in the
IUCN Red List since 2012 within the category Least Concern !
Within the same genus

Ember parrotfish
(Scarus rubroviolaceus)

Blue parrotfish
(Scarus coeruleus)

Swarthy Parrotfish
(Scarus niger)

Midnight parrotfish
(Scarus coelestinus)

Princess parrotfish
(Scarus taeniopterus)

Rusty parrotfish
(Scarus ferrugineus)

Queen parrotfish
(Scarus vetula)
Within the same family

Bumphead parrotfish
(Bolbometopon muricatum)

Stoplight parrotfish
(Sparisoma viride)

European parrotfish
(Sparisoma cretense)

Redband parrotfish
(Sparisoma aurofrenatum)
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(Scorpaena porcus)
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