Princess Parrotfish
Scarus forsteni
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 34 diving areas across 21 countries and 4 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 2 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 147 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 4 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 5 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 2 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 119 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 2 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 1 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 65 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 15 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 32 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 12 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 95 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 12 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 3 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 3 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 417 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 8 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 6 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 72 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 7 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 37 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 1 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 5 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 8 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 4 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 5 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 8 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 59 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 8 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 21 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 21 records