title: Scarus scaber
text: # 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.
  
  