Chlorurus bowersi, Bower's parrotfish or the orange-blotch parrotfish, is a species of ray-finned fish, a parrotfish from the familyScaridae. It is found in the Western Pacific Ocean from the Ryukyu Islands of Japan in the north to Java, Papua and the Philippines in the south,[2] and east to Micronesia. This species is found in reef flats and fronts in sheltered areas or where there is moderate exposure to the currents or waves. This is a relatively small parrotfish generally found in pairs which excavates burrows.[1] It feeds on filamentous algae.[3]Chlorurus bowersi was first formally described as Callyodon bowersi in 1909 by the AmericanichthyologistJohn Otterbein Snyder (1867-1943) and the type locality was given as Naha, Okinawa, Japan.[4]
