Blue Trim Parrotfish
Scarus ghobban
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 62 diving areas across 35 countries and 9 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 73 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 63 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 3 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 30 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 31 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 1 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 183 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 183 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 15 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 22 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 25 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 33 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 7 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 18 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 9 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 12 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 25 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 15 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 39 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 22 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 38 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 34 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 11 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 82 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 98 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 128 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 3 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 14 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 18 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 14 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 3 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 10 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 5 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 3 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 21 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 2 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 4 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 8 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 18 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 7 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 9 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 3 records
- Sea of Cortez, Mexico - 25 records
- El Gouna, Egypt - 6 records
- Hurghada, Egypt - 6 records
- Safaga, Egypt - 6 records
- Eilat, Israel - 1 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 563 records
- Isla de la Plata, Ecuador - 4 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 6 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 3 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 3 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 9 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 8 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 5 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 2 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 4 records