Scarus niger: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Scarus
- Species
- Scarus niger
- Scientific Name
- Scarus niger
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Scarus niger
Scarus niger, common names the swarthy parrotfish, dusky parrotfish, and black parrotfish, is a species of parrotfish. It is in the phylum Chordata, class Actinopterygii, and family Scaridae. Like other members of its family, it has characteristic 10 dorsal soft rays, 9 dorsal spines, 9 anal soft rays, and 3 anal spines, It is found in Indo-West and Central Pacific, from the Red Sea, north to Japan, south to Australia and east to French Polynesia. It is found in lagoons, channels and outer reefs slopes on the depths of 2 to 20 metres (6 ft 7 in to 65 ft 7 in). The dusky parrotfish often lives in solitude, but males may also live in a small group of mating females. The dusky parrotfish is primarily herbivorous, and its main source of food is benthic algae. At maturity, the fish is approximately 230-240mm long and weighs around 240g.
...Scarus niger in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Donker papegaaivis
- Arabic
- Ghabban
- Chinese
- 黑鸚哥魚
- Chinese
- 頸斑鸚哥魚
- Czech
- ploskozubec tmavý
- Danish
- Mørk papegøjefisk
- Dutch
- Zwarte Papegaaivis
- English
- Swarthy Parrotfish
- English
- Dusky Parrotfish
- English
- Black parrotfish
- Estonian
- Must papagoikala
- French
- Perroquet-daurade
- French
- Perroquet dorade
- French
- Kakatoi brisant
- French
- Poisson-perroquet noir
- German
- Schwarzer Papageifisch
- Hebrew
- תוכינון שחום
- Japanese
- ブチブダイ
- Japanese
- Buchibudai
- Portuguese
- Peixe-papagaio-moreno
- Portuguese
- Papagaio escuro
- Russian
- Тёмный скар
- Thai
- ปลานกแก้วปากส้ม
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Parent Taxon
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- Scarus ghobban
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