Dark-capped parrotfish

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title: "Dark-capped parrotfish" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["scarus", "fish-of-the-indian-ocean", "fish-of-the-pacific-ocean", "taxa-named-by-achille-valenciennes", "fish-described-in-1840"] description: "Species of fish" topic_path: "geography/india" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark-capped_parrotfish" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Species of fish ::

| status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = | image = Dark-capped Parrotfish.jpg | taxon = Scarus oviceps | authority = Valenciennes, 1840

The dark-capped parrotfish (Scarus oviceps), also known as the blue parrotfish, egghead parrotfish or yellow-barred parrotfish is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Scaridae. This species inhabits coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific from Mauritius in the east to the Tuamotus and the Line Islands in the west, north to the Ryukyu Islands, Japan and south to Shark Bay, Western Australia and the Great Barrier Reef.

References

References

1. Allen, G.. (2012). "''Scarus oviceps''".
2. "''Scarus oviceps''". Museums Victoria.
3. {{FishBase. Scarus. oviceps. (2019)

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