Chlorurus strongylocephalus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Chlorurus
- Species
- Chlorurus strongylocephalus
- Scientific Name
- Chlorurus strongylocephalus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Chlorurus strongylocephalus
Chlorurus strongylocephalus, commonly known as the steephead parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish from the family Scaridae which is native to the Indian Ocean, where it lives in coral reefs. Its range extends from the Gulf of Aden and Socotra down the coast of East Africa as far south as Mozambique and across the Indian Ocean to western Indonesia. It forms a species complex with Chlorurus gibbus of the Red Sea and Chlorurus microrhinos of the west-central Pacific.
...Chlorurus strongylocephalus in languages:
- Czech
- ploskozubec indický
- Danish
- Stejlpandet indisk papegøjefisk
- English
- Roundhead Parrotfish
- English
- Sheephead Parrotfish
- English
- Heavybeak Parrotfish
- English
- Steephead Parrotfish
- French
- Perroquet bleu
- German
- Indischer Buckelkopf-Papageifisch
- Italian
- Pesce pappagallo indiano
- Thai
- ปลานกแก้วหัวทุย
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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












































































































