Scarus coelestinus Midnight parrotfish, Nightowl Parrot, Queen parrotfish

Scarus coelestinus is commonly referred to as Midnight parrotfish, Nightowl Parrot, Queen parrotfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: suitable for large display tanks (public aquarium or zoo) only. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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AphiaID:: 276042

Scientific:: Scarus coelestinus
German:: Mitternachts-Papageifisch
English:: Midnight Parrotfish, Nightowl Parrot, Queen Parrotfish

Category:: Pesci pappagallo

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Teleostei (Class) > Eupercaria incertae sedis (Order) > Scaridae (Family) > Scarus (Genus) > coelestinus (Species)
Initial determination:: Valenciennes, 1840

Occurrence:: Barbados, Suriname, Guadeloupe, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Florida, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South America, The Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S., West-Atlantic Ocean
Marine Zone:: Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic.
Sea depth:: 5 - 75 Meter
Habitats:: Algae zones, Coral reefs, Coralline algae reef, Ocean beach, Seashore, Reef-associated, Rocky reefs, Seaward facing reefs
Size:: 19.69" - 30.31" (50cm - 77cm)
Weight:: 7 kg
Temperature:: 25,3 °F - 82.4 °F (25,3°C - 28°C)
Food:: Algae (Algivore), Aquatic plant, Herbivorous
Difficulty:: suitable for large display tanks (public aquarium or zoo) only
Offspring:: Not available as offspring
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Data deficient (DD)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2013-07-04 13:24:08
Last edit:: 2024-09-17 08:37:41

Info

Scarus coelestinus Valenciennes, 1840

Occurs from rocky coastal reefs to seaward reefs Often in schools, feeding with surgeonfishes by scraping off algae from rocks or dead coral.
Text source: FishBase

Synonymised names
Pseudoscarus coelestinus (Valenciennes, 1840) · unaccepted
Pseudoscarus plumbeus Bean, 1912 · unaccepted
Pseudoscarus simplex Poey, 1865 · unaccepted
Scarus coelastinus Valenciennes, 1840 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Scarus rostratus Poey, 1860 · unaccepted

External links

FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Marine Species Identification Portal (en) (Archive.org). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Reef Life Survey (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean online information system (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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