Labridae

Singapore parrotfish

Scarus prasiognathos

Fish Reaching Seventy Centimeters in the Western Indian Ocean

• Green
• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Europe
• Oceania
• South Asia
• Southeast Asia
• Elongated
• Compressed cross-section
• Large
• Tropical fish

Scarus prasiognathos, the Singapore parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish, in the family Scaridae. It is native to the eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans, where it lives in coral reefs. This species was first formally described in 1840 by the French naturalist Achille Valenciennes (1794-1865) with the type locality given as New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago.