Scarus festivus

Scarus festivus, the festive parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish in the family Scaridae. This species has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution and is found from the coast of East Africa east as far as the Tuamotu islands and north to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan and south to Lord Howe Island, Australia. This is an uncommon species which is found in clear lagoons and off seaward reefs where it grazes on benthic algae.^[2]

Festive parrotfish
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Labriformes
Family:	Labridae
Genus:	Scarus
Species:	S. festivus
Binomial name
Scarus festivus Valenciennes, 1840
Synonyms[2]
Callyodon lunula Snyder, 1908 Scarus lunula (Snyder, 1908) Callyodon verweyi de Beaufort, 1940 Margaritodon verweyi (de Beaufort, 1940)