''Scarus scaber'', the five-saddle parrotfish or dusky-capped parrotfish, is a species of marine

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Scaridae. It is native to Indian Ocean.

Description

This species grows to a maximum 37 cm in length and 900 g in weight.

Distribution

This species is widely distributed in the Indian Ocean (and around the islands therein) from western Thailand and northwest Indonesia in the east (southwards to Cocos-Keeling), and west to the coast of

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(as far south as Natal and north to Red Sea and Gulf of Aden).

Habitat

This species is either solitary, or forms small schools.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2164973 Taxa named by Achille Valenciennes Fish described in 1840 scaber