- Animals
- ›Chordates
- ›Vertebrates
- ›Ray-finned Fishes
- ›Spiny-rayed fishes
- ›Wrasses and allies
- ›False scorpionfishes, wrasses, and parrotfishes
- ›Wrasses and Parrotfishes
- ›Parrotfishes
- ›Chlorurus
Raggedfin Parrotfish
Chlorurus rhakoura
Chlorurus rhakoura, commonly known as the raggedfin parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish from the family Scaridae.
From the article Chlorurus rhakoura on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The maximum length attained by this species is 44.2 cm. This species have a total of nine dorsal spines, ten dorsal soft rays, three anal spines and nine anal soft rays. Its cross section is compressed.
Range & habitat
This species is mainly found in eastern Indian Ocean. It occurs near the coasts of Sri Lanka, in east Andaman Sea, near the coasts of Thailand, western Australia and Indonesia (eastern Halmahera).
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
What it does
This is an oviparous species. They usually exhibit distinct pairing during breeding.
Wikipedia: “Reproduction”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Chlorurus rhakoura in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 97646.