Blunt-head Parrotfish
Chlorurus microrhinos
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Eupercaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Scaridae
- Genus
- Chlorurus
Where to Find
Found in 38 diving areas across 21 countries and 5 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 160 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 383 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 15 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 24 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 30 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 333 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 40 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 7 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 8 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 489 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 205 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 47 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 192 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 265 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 45 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 23 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 46 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 8 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 3 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 316 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 20 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 13 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 205 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 42 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 101 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 10 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 10 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 1 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 1 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 18 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 2 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 1 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 1 records