Highfin Parrotfish, Scarus longipinnis Randall & Choat 1980

A Highfin Parrotfish, Scarus longipinnis, at Lomaiviti, Fiji, November 2016. Source: Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Summary:

A small parrotfish

Cite this page as:

Bray, D.J., Scarus longipinnis in Fishes of Australia, accessed 20 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/925

Highfin Parrotfish, Scarus longipinnis Randall & Choat 1980

More Info

Distribution

Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, and reefs in the Coral Sea. Eslewhere the species occurs in the southwestern Pacific from eastern Australia, to Rapa, Pitcairn and the Austral Islands. It is also found in southern Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia in the Coral Sea.
The Highfin Parrotfish forms small haremic groups on clear outer reef slopes and atoll reefs in depths of 10-55 m. In southern areas, it prefers shallower waters, 1-20 m, whereas on the northern Great Barrier Reef it occurs at depths to 50 m.

Author

Bray, D.J.

Highfin Parrotfish, Scarus longipinnis Randall & Choat 1980

References

Bellwood, D.R. & Choat, J.H. 1990. A functional analysis of grazing in parrotfishes (family Scaridae): the ecological implications. Environmental Biology of Fishes 28: 189-214.

Ceccarelli, D., Choat, J.H., Ayling, A.M., Richards, Z., van Herwerden, L., Ayling, A., Ewels, G., Hobbs, J.-P. & Cuff, B. 2008. Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve Marine Survey – 2007. Report to the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. C&R Consulting and James Cook University, Australia.

Comeros-Raynal, M.T., Choat, J.H., Polidoro, B.A., Clements, K.D., Abesamis, R., Craig, M.T., Lazuardi, M.E., McIlwain, J., Muljadi, A., Myers, R.F., Nañola Jr., C.L., Pardede, S., Rocha, L.A., Russell, B., Sanciangco, J.C., Stockwell, B., Harwell, H. & Carpenter, K.E. 2012. The likelihood of extinction of iconic and dominant components of coral reefs: the parrotfishes and surgeonfishes. PLoS ONE http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039825.

Choat, J.H., Myers, R., Russell, B., Clements, K.D., Rocha, L.A., Lazuardi, M.E., Muljadi, A., Pardede, S. & Rahardjo, P. 2012. Scarus longipinnis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T190769A17779229. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T190769A17779229.en. Downloaded on 06 December 2016.

Francis, M.P. 1993. Checklist of the coastal fishes of Lord Howe, Norfolk, and Kermadec Islands, Southwest Pacific Ocean. Pacific Science 47(2): 136-170.

Randall, J.E. 2005. Reef and shore fishes of the South Pacific. New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii. 720 pp.

Randall, J.E. & Choat, J.H. 1980. Two new parrotfishes of the genus Scarus from the Central and South Pacific, with further examples of sexual dichromatism. Journal of the Linnean Society of London 70: 383-419.

Smith, L.L., Fessler, J.L., Alfaro, M.E., Streelman, J.T. & Westneat, M.W. 2008. Phylogenetic relationships and the evolution of regulatory gene sequences in the parrotfishes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 136-152.

Westneat, M.W. d Alfaro, M.E. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the reef fish family Labridae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 36: 370–390.