Chlorurus perspicillatus
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| Chlorurus perspicillatus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Labridae |
| Genus: | Chlorurus |
| Species: | C. perspicillatus |
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| Chlorurus perspicillatus (Steindachner, 1879) | |
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Chlorurus perspicillatus, known officially by the English name, spectacled parrotfish, given by professional ichthyologists and Ichthyology or uhu-uliuli as a well-established Hawaiian name for many hundreds of years, is a species of marine fish in the family Scaridae.[3] Found only in the Eastern Central Pacific Hawaiian Islands, it inhabits lagoons and seaward reefs[4]
Young fish are brown with white dots and three white stripes and can reach a maximum size of 24 inches length when fully grown.[5]
It has been known to hybridize with Chlorurus sordidus.[2]
This species can reach 30 centimeters (1 foot) in length and has a blunt oval-shaped head, square tail, and smooth jaws. The species vary in color with males being primarily blue with thin bright pink scale edges that layer the head, while females are dark purple-grey in color with red fins and a white section on the tail where it meets the rest of the body.[6] These fish commonly start life as female and transition to male over the span of their lives, which usually brings along a color or pattern change.[7]
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