Greenthroat Parrotfish
Scarus prasiognathos
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 504
- Most observed in
- 🇲🇻 Maldives
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
Scarus prasiognathos, the Singapore parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish, in the family Scaridae. It is native to the eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans, where it lives in coral reefs. This species was first formally described in 1840 by the French naturalist Achille Valenciennes (1794-1865) with the type locality given as New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Scarus prasiognathos”.