Rivulated Parrotfish
Scarus rivulatus
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 31 diving areas across 17 countries and 4 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 187 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 200 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 21 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 57 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 76 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 3 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 3 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 2 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 35 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 1 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 88 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 18 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 35 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 10 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 1 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 45 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 11 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 122 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 190 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 483 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 1 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 12 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 44 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 7 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 4 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Tioman Island, Malaysia - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 9 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 4 records