Blue-barred parrotfish
Amazing fact
The blue-barred parrotfish has teeth fused within each jaw to form a parrot-like beak.
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The blue-barred parrotfish has teeth fused within each jaw to form a parrot-like beak.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Blue-barred parrotfish
- Scientific name
- Scarus ghobban
- Japanese name
- ヒブダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Labriformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Scarus
Where the name “Blue-barred parrotfish” comes from
The English name “blue-barred” refers to the blue bars on its scales. The scientific name ghobban is an Arabic name for this fish along the Red Sea.
Australian MuseumMuseums Victoria and OzFishNetIt lives from Japan's Pacific coast and the Ryukyu Islands across a wide area of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.
How the Blue-barred parrotfish lives
It lives in shallow lagoons, seagrass beds and reefs. When feeding, it scrapes food from the surfaces of rocks and corals. Adults are usually seen on their own.
Australian MuseumBasic data
- Diet
- Algae
- Range
- Miura Peninsula to Nichinan, Pacific coast of southern Kyushu, Izu Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, and Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Blue-barred parrotfish has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ヒブダイ
- 简体中文
- 青点鹦嘴鱼
- 繁體中文
- 藍點鸚哥魚
- Español
- Loro Barbazul
- Français
- Perroquet
- Deutsch
- Blauband-Papageifisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-papagaio-de-manchas-azuis
- Italiano
- Pesce pappagallo fasce azzurre
- العربية
- Gen
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kole
- Русский
- Скар-попугай
- Türkçe
- Papağan Balığı
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ヒブダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- Australian Museum — Bluebarred Parrotfish, Scarus ghobban Forsskål, 1775Checked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria and OzFishNet — Bluebarred Parrotfish, Scarus ghobban Forsskål 1775Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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