Endangered
Knobsnout parrotfish
Acropora solitaryensis
Knobsnout parrotfish is a staghorn coral in the family Acroporidae (order Scleractinia) — Acropora solitaryensis, recorded as Endangered and tied to Indonesia, Australia, and Japan.
Appearance
The knobsnout parrotfish (Scarus ovifrons) or blue humphead parrotfish is a marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish, in the family Scaridae that is famous for its characteristic blue color. Its body is a strong blue color, and may have reddish-brown, white, or black spots on it.
It grows to a maximum length of about 90 cm.
Range and habitat
It is found in the northwestern Pacific Ocean off Japan and Taiwan.
GBIF currently lists 1,620 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Large fish that are over 40 cm in length have also been recorded feeding on live Knobsnout parrotfish coral.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Branching acroporids are among the first corals to bleach in a marine heatwave and among the first to smash in a storm or under an anchor.
Knobsnout parrotfish is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Knobsnout parrotfish, Wikidata item Q3948741 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
