Scarus ferrugineus Rusty parrotfish

Scarus ferrugineusis commonly referred to as Rusty parrotfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Scientific:: Scarus ferrugineus
German:: Rostpapageifisch
English:: Rusty Parrotfish

Category:: Parrotfishes

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scaridae (Family) > Scarus (Genus) > ferrugineus (Species)
Initial determination:: Forsskål, 1775

Occurrence:: Kuwait, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, Hong Kong, Djibouti, Bahrain, China, Egypt, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Jordan, Quatar, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Vietnam, Western Indian Ocean, Yemen
Marine Zone:: Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic.
Sea depth:: 1 - 60 Meter
Size:: 9.84" - 16.14" (25cm - 41cm)
Temperature:: 71.6 °F - 82.4 °F (22°C - 28°C)
Food:: Algae, Nori-Algae
Difficulty:: Not suitable for home aquaria!
Offspring:: Not available as offspring
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Least concern (LC)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2012-11-03 13:47:46
Last edit:: 2019-11-12 16:15:41

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Forsskål, 1775

Distribution:
Western Indian Ocean: Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

Biology:
Inhabits protected coral slopes.
Individuals in the terminal phase form harems. Feeds mainly on benthic algae.

Synonymised taxa:
Pseudoscarus augustinus Kossmann & Räuber, 1877
Scarus aeruginosus Valenciennes, 1840
Scarus caerulescens Valenciennes, 1840
Scarus coerulescens Valenciennes, 1840
Scarus marshalli Schultz, 1958

Scientific paper

Seasonal and life-phase related differences in growth in Scarus ferrugineus on a southern Red Sea fringing reef, Afeworki, Y.; Videler, J. J.; Berhane, Y. H.; Bruggemann, J. H. , 2014
Ultrastructural Evidence of Oogenesis of the Rusty Parrotfish, Scarus ferrugineus (Teleostei: Scaridae), Sayeda H. Abdel-Aziz, Mashael Al-Otaibi, Amany M. Osman, T. El-Sayed Ali and Fayza Bawazeer, 2012
Ultrastructural Evidence of Oogenesis of the Rusty Parrotfish, Scarus ferrugineus (Teleostei: Scaridae), Abdel-Aziz, Sayeda H.; Al-Otaibi, Mashael; Osman, Amany M.; Ali, T. El-Sayed; Bawazeer, Fayza , 2012
Sexual patterns and protogynous sex reversal in the rusty parrotfish,Scarus ferrugineus(Scaridae): histological and physiological studies, Abdel-Aziz, El-Sayedah H.; Bawazeer, Fayzah A.; El-Sayed Ali, Tamer; Al-Otaibi, Mashael , 2012

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Female

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Scarus ferrugineus; Rotes Meer Marsa Alam

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