Chlorurus frontalis Pacific Slopehead Parrotfish, Reefcrest Parrotfish

Chlorurus frontalisis commonly referred to as Pacific Slopehead Parrotfish, Reefcrest Parrotfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

12601 

AphiaID:

277506 

Scientific:

Chlorurus frontalis 

German:

Papageifisch 

English:

Pacific Slopehead Parrotfish, Reefcrest Parrotfish 

Category:

Parrotfishes 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scaridae (Family) > Chlorurus (Genus) > frontalis (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Valenciennes, ), 1840 

Occurrence:

American Samoa, Austral Islands, Australia, Bakers Island, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Great Barrier Reef, Guam, Howland Island, Japan, Kiribati, Line Islands, Marschall Islands, Micronesia, Moorea, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, North Pacific (Ocean), Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Phoenix Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, South-Pazific, Tahiti, Taiwan, The Ryukyu Islands, the Society Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Vietnam, Wake Atoll, Wallis and Futuna 

Sea depth:

10 - 40 Meter 

Size:

up to 19.69" (50 cm) 

Temperature:

80.6 °F - 84.2 °F (27°C - 29°C) 

Food:

Algae, Aquatic plant 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

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Catalog of Life:

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  Chlorurus atrilunula
  Knotenkopf-Papageifisch
• 
  Chlorurus bleekeri
  Bleekers Papageifisch
• 
  Chlorurus bowersi
  Bower´s Papageifisch
• 
  Chlorurus capistratoides
  Indischer Papageifisch
• 
  Chlorurus cyanescens
  "Cyanfarbener Buckelkopf"-Papageifisch
• 
  Chlorurus enneacanthus
  Kapitäns-Papageifisch
• 
  Chlorurus frontalis
  Papageifisch
• 
  Chlorurus genazonatus
  Papageifisch
• 
  Chlorurus gibbus
  Rotmeerbuckelkopf-Papageifisch
• 
  Chlorurus japanensis
  Papageifisch
• 
  Chlorurus microrhinos
  Buckelkopf-Papageifisch
• 
  Chlorurus oedema
  Papageifisch
• 
  Chlorurus perspicillatus
  Papageifisch
• 
  Chlorurus rhakoura
  Papageifisch
• 
  Chlorurus sordidus
  Kugelkopf-Papageifisch
• 
  Chlorurus spilurus
  "Pazifischer Kugelkopf-Papageienfisch"
• 
  Chlorurus strongylocephalus
  Indischer-Buckelkopf Papageifisch
• 
  Chlorurus troschelii
  Troschel's Papageifisch
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Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2019-11-30 11:48:52 

Last edit:

2019-11-30 13:49:18 

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