''Chlorurus strongylocephalus'', commonly known as the steephead parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish from the family Scaridae which is native to the Indian Ocean, where it lives in coral reefs. Its range extends from the

Gulf of Aden The Gulf of Aden ( ar, خليج عدن, so, Gacanka Cadmeed 𐒅𐒖𐒐𐒕𐒌 𐒋𐒖𐒆𐒗𐒒) is a deepwater gulf of the Indian Ocean between Yemen to the north, the Arabian Sea to the east, Djibouti to the west, and the Guardafui Channe ...

and Socotra down the coast of East Africa as far south as Mozambique and across the Indian Ocean to western Indonesia. It forms a species complex with ''

Chlorurus gibbus ''Chlorurus gibbus'', the heavybeak parrotfish, gibbus parrotfish or Red Sea steephead parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish from the family Scaridae. It is found in the Red Sea. Description ''Chlorurus gibbus'' is a l ...

'' of the Red Sea and ''

Chlorurus microrhinos ''Chlorurus microrhinos'', the blunt-head parrotfish or steephead parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish from the family Scaridae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific region. Distribution This species is one of the most wi ...

'' of the west-central Pacific.

Gallery

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References

Fish of the Indian Ocean Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker Fish described in 1854 Fish of Thailand strongylocephalus {{Ray-finned fish-stub