Blue Parrotfish
Scarus oviceps
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 37 diving areas across 19 countries and 5 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 1 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 220 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 2 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 5 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 117 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 6 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 1 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 42 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 5 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 15 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 26 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 43 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 60 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 51 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 495 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 47 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 88 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 15 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 94 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 534 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 110 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 39 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 204 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 65 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 50 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 14 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 9 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 30 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 5 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 13 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 2 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 14 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 14 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 5 records