Bicolor Parrotfish
Scarus rubroviolaceus
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 54 diving areas across 33 countries and 8 regions.
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 179 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 4 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 22 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 225 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 225 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 70 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 4 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 7 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 31 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 8 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 35 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 46 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 29 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 76 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 48 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 48 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 7 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 6 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 4 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 577 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 29 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 25 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 32 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 5 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 9 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 2 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 23 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 17 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 4 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 7 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 11 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 164 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 4 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 10 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 66 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 11 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 2 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 40 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 3 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 8 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 224 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 1 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 4 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 12 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 13 records
- Gulf of Thailand, Thailand - 2 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 2 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 3 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 27 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 31 records