Chlorurus capistratoides: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Chlorurus
- Species
- Chlorurus capistratoides
- Scientific Name
- Chlorurus capistratoides
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Chlorurus capistratoides
Chlorurus capistratoides, commonly known as the Indian parrotfish or the pink-margined parrotfish, is a marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish from the family Scaridae. This species is native to the eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean, where it lives in coral reefs. This species occurs in small schools, frequently mixed in with other fish species, these schools forage over corals in clear coastal and inner reefs where there is abundant algal and coral growth. It feeds on filamentous algae.
...Chlorurus capistratoides in languages:
- Czech
- ploskozubec bledolící
- English
- Pink-margined Parrotfish
- English
- Black-tip Parrotfish
- English
- Indian Parrotfish
- French
- Perroquet indien
- Thai
- ปลานกแก้วแก้มขีด
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Chlorurus atrilunula
- Chlorurus bleekeri
- Chlorurus bowersi
- Chlorurus capistratoides
- Chlorurus cyanescens
- Chlorurus enneacanthus
- Chlorurus frontalis
- Chlorurus genazonatus
- Chlorurus gibbus
- Chlorurus japanensis
- Chlorurus microrhinos
- Chlorurus oedema
- Chlorurus perspicillatus
- Chlorurus rhakoura
- Chlorurus sordidus
- Chlorurus spilurus
- Chlorurus strongylocephalus
- Chlorurus troschelii





























