Chlorurus enneacanthus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Chlorurus
- Species
- Chlorurus enneacanthus
- Scientific Name
- Chlorurus enneacanthus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Chlorurus enneacanthus
Chlorurus enneacanthus, known commonly as the captain parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish from the family Scaridae. It is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean region. Its range extends from Mozambique to Christmas Island.
The captain parrotfish is a medium-sized fish and can reach a maximum length of 50 cm.
...Chlorurus enneacanthus in languages:
- Czech
- ploskozubec enneacanthus
- English
- Captain Parrotfish
- French
- Poisson-perroquet vert
- German
- Kapitäns-Papageifisch
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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













