Chlorurus strongylocephalus

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.^[2] 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.^[1] It forms a species complex with Chlorurus gibbus of the Red Sea and Chlorurus microrhinos of the west-central Pacific.^[2]

Chlorurus strongylocephalus
Male (top) and female (bottom)
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Labriformes
Family:	Labridae
Genus:	Chlorurus
Species:	C. strongylocephalus
Binomial name
Chlorurus strongylocephalus (Bleeker, 1855)
Synonyms[2]
Scarus strongylocephalus Bleeker, 1855 Callyodon strongylocephalus (Bleeker, 1855)

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  Male
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  Female