Sealife guideThe midnight parrotfishScarus coelestinus

Last updated on 05/17/2024 at 07:06 PM

Taxonomy

Common name: Midnight parrotfish
French name: Poisson perroquet noir
Spanish name: Loro de medianoche
Scientific name: Scarus coelestinus (Valenciennes, 1840)
Family name: Scaridae
Order name: Perciformes
Class name: Actinopterygii

Did you know ?

The midnight parrotfish is listed as many other marine species within The IUCN Red List of threatened species. The midnight parrotfish appears in the IUCN Red List since 2012 within the category Data Deficient !

The midnight parrotfish (Scarus coelestinus)

A school of midnight parrotfish (Scarus coelestinus)

Within the same genus

Blue-barred parrotfish
(Scarus ghobban)

Blue parrotfish
(Scarus coeruleus)

Ember parrotfish
(Scarus rubroviolaceus)

Princess parrotfish
(Scarus taeniopterus)

Queen parrotfish
(Scarus vetula)

Rusty parrotfish
(Scarus ferrugineus)

Swarthy Parrotfish
(Scarus niger)

Within the same family

Bumphead parrotfish
(Bolbometopon muricatum)

European parrotfish
(Sparisoma cretense)

Redband parrotfish
(Sparisoma aurofrenatum)

Stoplight parrotfish
(Sparisoma viride)

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(Mugil cephalus)

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(Chaetodon semilarvatus)

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(Thalassoma lunare)

Pearl toby
(Canthigaster margaritata)

Rainbow runner
(Elagatis bipinnulata)

Scrawled butterflyfish
(Chaetodon meyeri)

White seabream
(Diplodus sargus)

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(Eretmochelys imbricata)

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(Scyllarides aequinoctialis)

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(Stenorhynchus seticornis)

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