Roundhead Parrotfish
Scarus globiceps
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 42 diving areas across 24 countries and 5 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 118 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 245 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 1 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 27 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 41 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 57 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 872 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 2 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 19 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 4 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 11 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 7 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 100 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 38 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 20 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 26 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 4 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 15 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 10 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 12 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 146 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 18 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 8 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 183 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 149 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 62 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 8 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 9 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 13 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 3 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 4 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 9 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 2 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 13 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 5 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 6 records