Chlorurus strongylocephalus

Chlorurus strongylocephalus
Male (top) and female (bottom)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Labriformes
Family: Labridae
Genus: Chlorurus
Species:
C. strongylocephalus
Binomial name
Chlorurus strongylocephalus
(Bleeker, 1855)
Synonyms
  • Scarus strongylocephalus Bleeker, 1855
  • Callyodon strongylocephalus (Bleeker, 1855)

Chlorurus strongylocephalus, commonly known as the steephead parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish from the family Scaridae which is native to the Indian Ocean, where it lives in coral reefs. Its range extends from the Gulf of Aden and Socotra down the coast of East Africa as far south as Mozambique and across the Indian Ocean to western Indonesia. It forms a species complex with Chlorurus gibbus of the Red Sea and Chlorurus microrhinos of the west-central Pacific.