Chlorurus bowersi, Bower's parrotfish or the orange-blotch parrotfish, is a species of ray-finned fish, a parrotfish from the family Scaridae. It is found in the Western Pacific Ocean from the Ryukyu Islands of Japan in the north to Java, Papua and the Philippines in the south,[2] and east to Micronesia. This species is found in reef flats and fronts in sheltered areas or where there is moderate exposure to the currents or waves. This is a relatively small parrotfish generally found in pairs which excavates burrows.[1] It feeds on filamentous algae.[3] Chlorurus bowersi was first formally described as Callyodon bowersi in 1909 by the American ichthyologist John Otterbein Snyder (1867-1943) and the type locality was given as Naha, Okinawa, Japan.[4]
| Chlorurus bowersi | |
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| Bower's parrotfish | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Scaridae |
| Genus: | Chlorurus |
| Species: | C. bowersi
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| Binomial name | |
| Chlorurus bowersi (Snyder, 1909)
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Etymology
editThe specific name honours the former United States Commissioner of Fisheries George Meade Bowers (1863-1925).[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Choat, J.H.; Carpenter, K.E.; Clements, K.D.; Rocha, L.A.; Russell, B.; Myers, R.; Lazuardi, M.E.; Muljadi, A.; Pardede, S.; Rahardjo, P. (2012). "Chlorurus bowersi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T190711A17796625. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T190711A17796625.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Chlorurus bowersi". FishBase. August 2019 version.
- ^ "Bower's Parrotfish (Chlorurus bowersi)". whatsthatfish.com. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Callyodon bowersi". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
- ^ Snyder, J. O. (1909). "Descriptions of new genera and species of fishes from Japan and the Riu Kiu Islands". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 36 (1688): 597–610.
External links
edit- Photos of Chlorurus bowersi on Sealife Collection