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Longnose Parrotfishes
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Longnose Parrotfishes

Hipposcarus

Hipposcarus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes, parrotfish from the family Labridae. The two species in the genus are distributed in the Indo-Pacific.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Indian Longnose Parrotfish

speciesHipposcarus harid

Pacific Longnose Parrotfish

speciesHipposcarus longiceps

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 88913.