Chlorurus perspicillatus
Chlorurus perspicillatus, known officially by the English name, spectacled parrotfish, given by professional ichthyologists and Ichthyology or uhu-uliuli as a well-established Hawaiian name for many hundreds of years, is a species of marine fish in the family Scaridae. Found only in the Eastern Central Pacific Hawaiian Islands, it inhabits lagoons and seaward reefs
| Chlorurus perspicillatus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Scaridae |
| Genus: | Chlorurus |
| Species: | C. perspicillatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Chlorurus perspicillatus (Steindachner, 1879) | |
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Young fish are brown with white dots and three white stripes and can reach a maximum size of 24 inches length when fully grown.
It has been known to hybridize with Chlorurus sordidus.
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