Saddled Parrotfish
Scarus dimidiatus
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 28 diving areas across 15 countries and 4 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 6 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 65 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 10 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 140 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 31 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 214 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 61 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 75 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 136 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 24 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 27 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 36 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 105 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 54 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 57 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 24 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 28 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 17 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 41 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 3 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 6 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 19 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 11 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 1 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 5 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 5 records