Scarus ghobban Bluebarred Parrotfish, Blue Chin Parrotfish, Blue Trim Parrotfish, Blue-barred Orange Parrotfish, Blue-barred Orange Parrot-fish, Blue-barred Parrotfish, Flame-breasted Parrot-fish, Green Blotched Parrotfish, Yellow Scale Parrotfish, Yellowscale Parrotfish

Scarus ghobbanis commonly referred to as Bluebarred Parrotfish, Blue Chin Parrotfish, Blue Trim Parrotfish, Blue-barred Orange Parrotfish, Blue-barred Orange Parrot-fish, Blue-barred Parrotfish, Flame-breasted Parrot-fish, Green Blotched Parrotfish, Yellow Scale Parrotfish, Yellowscale Parrotfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Average. A aquarium size of at least 15000 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Scientific:: Scarus ghobban
German:: Blaustreifen-Papageienfisch
English:: Bluebarred Parrotfish, Blue Chin Parrotfish, Blue Trim Parrotfish, Blue-barred Orange Parrotfish, Blue-barred Orange Parrot-fish, Blue-barred Parrotfish, Flame-breasted Parrot-fish, Green Blotched Parrotfish, Yellow Scale Parrotfish, Yellowscale Parrotfish

Category:: Parrotfishes

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scaridae (Family) > Scarus (Genus) > ghobban (Species)
Initial determination:: Forsskål, 1775

Occurrence:: Hong Kong, Djibouti, Sudan, Kuwait, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, (the) Maldives, American Samoa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, Bahrain, Cambodia, Central Pazific, China, Christmas Islands, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Eastern Indian Ocean, Ecuador, French Polynesia, Galapagos Islands, Guam, Guatemala, Gulf of California, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Honduras, India, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Irak, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Kiribati, Komodo (Komodo Island), Lessepsian migrant, Lord Howe Island, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marquesas Islands, Marschall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico (East Pacific), Micronesia, Mozambique, New Caledonia, New South Wales (Australia), Nicaragua, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Quatar, Raja Amat, Rapa, Red Sea, Réunion , Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South-Africa, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Tahiti, Taiwan, Tansania, Tasman Sea, Thailand, The Bangai Archipelago, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), the Cocos Islands / Keeling Islands, the Mediterranean Sea, the Seychelles, Timor, Togean Islands, Tonga, Tuamoto Islands, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Western Australia, Western Pacific Ocean, Yemen, Zanzibar
Marine Zone:: Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic.
Sea depth:: 1 - 90 Meter
Size:: 31.5" - 39.37" (80cm - 100cm)
Temperature:: 76.1 °F - 84.38 °F (24.5°C - 29.1°C)
Food:: Algae, Flakes, Frozen Food (large sort), Mysis, Shrimps
Tank:: 3299.68 gal (~ 15000L)
Difficulty:: Average
Offspring:: Not available as offspring
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Least concern (LC)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2004-10-20 21:58:35
Last edit:: 2023-08-05 10:01:44

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Forsskål, 1775

Synonyms:
Callyodon apridentatus Smith, 1956
Callyodon dussumieri (Valenciennes, 1840)
Callyodon fuscocuneus Fowler, 1935
Callyodon ghobban (Forsskål, 1775)
Callyodon guttatus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Callyodon speigleri Smith, 1956
Hemistoma reticulata Swainson, 1839
Pseudoscarus californiensis Pellegrin, 1901
Pseudoscarus cantori Bleeker, 1861
Pseudoscarus flavipinnis De Vis, 1885
Pseudoscarus garretti Günther, 1909
Pseudoscarus natalensis Gilchrist & Thompson, 1909
Pseudoscarus nudirostris Alleyne & MacLeay, 1877
Pseudoscarus papuensis MacLeay, 1883
Scarus apridentatus Smith
Scarus azureus Meek & Hildebrand, 1928
Scarus dussumieri Valenciennes, 1840
Scarus fehlmanni Schultz, 1969
Scarus ghoban Forsskål, 1775 (misspelling)
Scarus guttatus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Scarus haridoides Bleeker, 1855
Scarus lacerta Valenciennes, 1840
Scarus maculosus Lacepède, 1802
Scarus magrathii Bennett, 1841
Scarus noyesi Heller & Snodgrass, 1903
Scarus pepo Bennett, 1830
Scarus pyrrostethus Richardson, 1846
Scarus pyrrostethus australianus Paradice, 1927
Scarus scabriusculus Valenciennes, 1840
Scarus toshi Whitley, 1933

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scaridae (Family) > Scarinae (Subfamily) > Scarus (Genus)

Scientific paper

Genetic connectivity and historical demography of the blue barred parrotfish (Scarus ghobban) in the western Indian Ocean, Shakil Visram; Ming-Che Yang; Ruby Moothien Pillay; Sadri Said; Oskar Henriksson; Mats Grahn; Chaolun Allen Chen, 2010
Lack of a genetic bottleneck in a recent Lessepsian bioinvader, the blue-barred parrotfish, Scarus ghobban, Michel Bariche; Giacomo Bernardi, 2009
Neoechinorhynchus qatarensis sp. n. (Acanthocephala: Neoechinorhynchidae) from the blue-barred flame parrot fish, Scarus ghobban Forsskål, 1775, in Qatari waters of the Arabian Gulf, Omar M. Amin; M.F.A. Saoud; K.S.R. Alkuwari, 2002

External links

FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Fishes of Australia (en). Abgerufen am 12.08.2020.
Reef Life Survey (en). Abgerufen am 12.08.2020.

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