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Related FAQs: Parrotfishes, Other Genera Coverage: Scarus, Sparisoma, /The Conscientious Marine Aquarist Parrotfishes of the Genus Chlorurus | 
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Chlorurus sordidus term. phase |
Genus Chlorurus: Sixteen species. | Chlorurus bleekeri (De Beaufort 1940), Bleeker's Parrotfish. West Pacific; Moluccas to Fiji, including the GBR and Micronesians. Males in Pulau Redang, Malaysia, the last in Fiji. |  
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| Chlorurus gibbus (Ruppell 1829), the Heavybeak Parrotfish, aka Steepheaded Parrotfish... a species complex currently comprising C. gibbus in the Red Sea, C. strongylocephalus in the Indian Ocean and C. microrhinos in the west-central Pacific... needs taxonomic review. To twenty eight inches in length. Below: juvenile, initial and terminal phases in the Red Sea. |
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| Chlorurus microrhinos Bleeker 1854, the Steepheaded Parrotfish. These off Pulau Redang, Malaysia and Heron Island, GBR, and Fiji. To twenty eight inches in length. Pacific Ocean; Australia, Micronesia, Japan. |
| Chlorurus sordidus (Forsskal 1775), the Daisy Parrotfish. Indo-Pacific, Red Sea to Hawai'i. Mainly feeds on benthic algae. To sixteen inches overall length. A juvenile and initial phase (female) at right from Pulau Redang, Malaysia. Below, first row are images from Hawai'i the second row, first two pix are from the Cook Islands and last one from Malaysia... of terminal males. A highly variably colored species for sure. |  
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