Scarus scaber
# Scarus scaber

Scarus scaber, the five-saddle parrotfish or dusky-capped parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish, in the family Scaridae. It is native to Indian Ocean.

## Description

This species grows to a maximum 37 cm in length and 900 g in weight.

* Initial phase (female)
* Final phase (male)

## Distribution

This species is widely distributed in the Indian Ocean (and around the islands therein) from western Thailand and northwest Indonesia in the east (southwards to Cocos-Keeling), and west to the coast of Africa (as far south as Natal and north to Red Sea and Gulf of Aden).

## Habitat

This species is either solitary, or forms small schools.

