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Purple-brown Parrotfish

Scarus fuscopurpureus

Classification

Family
Scaridae

Scarus fuscopurpureus, common name purple-brown parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish. This species of parrotfish occurs in the western Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Persian Gulf. Taxonomy Scarus fuscopurpureus was first formally described as Pseudoscarus forskalii fuscopurpureus in 1871 by the German physician and zoologist Carl Benjamin Klunzinger (1834-1914), with the type locality given as Al-Qusair, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt.

Distribution

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