Filament-finned Parrotfish
Scarus altipinnis
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
- Scarus
Where to Find
Found in 27 diving areas across 14 countries and 3 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 103 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 227 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 23 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 30 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 37 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 320 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 24 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 23 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 119 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 26 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 4 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 48 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 10 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 11 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 4 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 13 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 88 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 8 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 240 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 49 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 30 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 2 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 8 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 15 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 5 records