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Updated 4/27/2020

Family Scaridae

INDO-WEST PACIFIC

Hipposcarus longiceps

Male, German Channel, Palau

 


Female, Palau


Juvenile, Mandarin Lake, Palau

PACIFIC LONGNOSE PARROTFISH

Common on sheltered coral reefs.  Important food fish in Palau.  Attains 20 inches.  Indonesia to French Polynesia, excluding Hawaii.  Replaced by Hipposcarus harid in the Indian Ocean.