Bullethead Parrotfish
Chlorurus sordidus
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 72 diving areas across 36 countries and 6 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 6 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 6 records
- Coral Sea, Australia - 208 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 488 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 14 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 101 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 153 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 137 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 12 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 2169 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 20 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 63 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 127 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 47 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 30 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 84 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 855 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 300 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 1386 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 1907 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 98 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 21 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 119 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 216 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 38 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 119 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 150 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 270 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 61 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 1245 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 713 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 816 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 24 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 27 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 85 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 2 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 4 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 3 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 3 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 6 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 67 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 5 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 5 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 690 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 7 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 121 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 31 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 4 records
- Dar es Salaam & Offshore Islands, Tanzania - 67 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 5 records
- El Gouna, Egypt - 10 records
- Hurghada, Egypt - 10 records
- Safaga, Egypt - 10 records
- Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt - 10 records
- Eilat, Israel - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 1 records
- Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - 3 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 5 records
- Malapascua, Philippines - 4 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 23 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 10 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 2 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 5 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 4 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 4 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 28 records