page_title: Marbled parrotfish
section_title: Distribution
hierarchical_section_title: Marbled parrotfish / Distribution
caption_attribution_description: Scarichthys caeruleopunctatus = Leptoscarus vaigiensis (Quoy &amp; Gaimard, 1824)
context_page_description: The marbled parrotfish, also known as the seagrass parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish from the family Scaridae and it is the only known member of the genus Leptoscarus. It has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution and is also found in the south eastern Atlantic Ocean. It is a coastal species found in beds of sea grass and seaweed.
context_section_description: The marbled parrotfish has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution from the northern Red Sea south along the eastern coast of Africa to the Cape of Good Hope and eastwards through the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean to Easter Island. In the Pacific Ocean its range extends north to Japan and south to Rottnest Island off Western Australia and the Poor Knights Islands of New Zealand. In the south eastern Atlantic this species isfound in False Bay in the Western Cape, South Africa. Its distribution is largely anti-equatorial (i.e., found in both the Southern and Northern Hemispheres, but rare or absent near the Equator).
caption: Leptoscarus vaigiensis by Francis Day
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