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Chlorurus perspicillatus Spectacled parrotfish      

Kingdom - Animalia - animals
   Phylum - Chordata - chordates
      Subphylum - Vertebrata - vertebrates
         Superclass - Osteichthyes - peixe ósseo
            Class - Actinopterygii - poissons à nageoires rayonnées
               Subclass - Neopterygii - neopterygians
                  Infraclass - Teleostei
                     Superorder - Acanthopterygii
                        Order - Perciformes - perch-like fishes
                           Suborder - Labroidei - poissons-perroquets
                              Family - Scaridae (Rafinesque, 1810) - poissons-perroquets
                                 Subfamily - Scarinae
                                    Genus - Chlorurus (Swainson, 1839)
                                       Species - Chlorurus perspicillatus (Steindachner, 1879)

Fishbase Information (FISHBASE.ORG)

Spectacled parrotfish 

60.9 cm SL (male/unsexed; Ref. 3921); max. published weight: 7,000 g (Ref. 9710)

reef-associated; marine

tropical

Eastern Central Pacific: known only from the Hawaiian Islands. Have recently been reported from Johnston and Midway islands (Ref. 28618, 28620).

Inhabits clear lagoon and seaward reefs, from the intertidal to at least 45 m (Ref. 9710).

Fishbase Credit - Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2005.FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version (06/2005).