Pacific Longnose Parrotfish
Hipposcarus longiceps
Classification
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Scaridae
Hipposcarus est un genre de poissons marins téléostéens tropicaux de la famille des Scaridae (poissons-perroquets).
Hipposcarus longiceps or Pacific longnose parrotfish is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish in the family Scaridae. It is found in the eastern Indian Oceans and the western Pacific Ocean from the Cocos-Keeling Islands and Rowley Shoals in the eastern Indian Ocean to the Line and Tuamotu islands in the east, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to the Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia. Hipposcarus longiceps was first formally described as Scarus longiceps in 1840 by the French ichthyologist Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865) with the type locality given as Waigeo in modern…
Hipposcarus longiceps es una especie de peces de la familia Scaridae en el orden de los Perciformes. Morfología • Los machos pueden llegar alcanzar los 60 cm de longitud total. Distribución geográfica Se encuentra desde el este del Índico hasta las Islas de la Línea, las Tuamotu, las Islas Ryukyu, la Gran Barrera de Coral y Nueva Caledonia.
Distribution
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