Sealife guideThe queen parrotfishScarus vetula

Taxonomy
  • Common name: Queen parrotfish
  • French name: Poisson perroquet royal
  • Spanish name: Loro reina
  • Scientific name: Scarus vetula (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
  • Family name: Scaridae
  • Order name: Perciformes
  • Class name: Actinopterygii
Did you know ?
The queen parrotfish is listed as many other marine species within The IUCN Red List of threatened species. The queen parrotfish appears in the IUCN Red List since 2012 within the category Least Concern !
Within the same genus
Blue-barred parrotfish (Scarus ghobban)
Blue-barred parrotfish
(Scarus ghobban)
Ember parrotfish (Scarus rubroviolaceus)
Ember parrotfish
(Scarus rubroviolaceus)
Blue parrotfish (Scarus coeruleus)
Blue parrotfish
(Scarus coeruleus)
Swarthy Parrotfish (Scarus niger)
Swarthy Parrotfish
(Scarus niger)
Midnight parrotfish (Scarus coelestinus)
Midnight parrotfish
(Scarus coelestinus)
Princess parrotfish (Scarus taeniopterus)
Princess parrotfish
(Scarus taeniopterus)
Rusty parrotfish (Scarus ferrugineus)
Rusty parrotfish
(Scarus ferrugineus)
Within the same family
Bumphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum)
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(Bolbometopon muricatum)
Stoplight parrotfish (Sparisoma viride)
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(Sparisoma viride)
European parrotfish (Sparisoma cretense)
European parrotfish
(Sparisoma cretense)
Redband parrotfish (Sparisoma aurofrenatum)
Redband parrotfish
(Sparisoma aurofrenatum)
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(Echeneis naucrates)
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