Scarus frenatus

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Line Islands and Ducie (Pitcairn Group), north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to Shark Bay (Western Australia), Lord Howe Island and Rapa. Found on exposed seaward coral reefs, sometimes in very shallow water; juveniles occur among coral and rubble of lagoon reefs, 1 – 20 m depth. Marine.

Sumber: Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records

Distribution: Red Sea south to Mozambique, Madagascar, and the Mascarene Islands, east to French Polynesia. Known from the entire Arabian region, including the eastern Gulf of Aden and Socotra, to the Arabian / Persian Gulf (Randall & Bruce 1983; Randall 1995; Golani & Bogorodsky 2010); but records from the Gulf of Oman and Arabian / Persian Gulf require verification.

Sumber: Parrotfishes (Teleostei: Labridae: Scarini) of the Socotra Archipelago: Diversity and distributional biogeography, including a range extension of Scarus zufar Randall & Hoover, 1995