Scarus ghobban Forsskål, 1775 .

Bluebanded Parrotfish, Bluebarred Parrotfish, Bluechin Parrotfish, or Yellowscale Parrotfish. To 90 cm (35.4 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2008). Indo-Pacific and Mediterranean Sea (Goren and Aronov 2002); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Shimada in Nakabo 2002); Rocas Alijos, southern Baja California (Gotshall 1998); Todos Santos (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) into northern Gulf of California (González-Cuéllar et al. 2012) to Ecuador (Allen and Robertson 1994), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: intertidal to 150 m (492 ft) (min.: Arndt and Fricke 2019; max.: Robertson and Allen 2015).