Steephead Parrotfish

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  1. Posted by @Monikaw
    March 23, 2016 at 01:16 am - 1 person found this useful.

    Yes it looks like a Regal parrotfish - but according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature website http://www.iucnredlist.org/ "Scarus dubius is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. Reported occurrences outside of Hawaii are misidentifications (Froese and Pauly 2006)". Baffling, since the photo was taken at Embudu, Maldives. I suspect it may be an unusually red female Steephead parrotfish (Scarus strongylocephalus)

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