Editing Parrotfish (section)

==Taxonomy==
Traditionally, the parrotfishes have been considered to be a [[Family (biology)|family]] level [[taxon]], Scaridae. Although [[phylogenetic]] and evolutionary analyses of parrotfishes are ongoing, they are now accepted to be a [[clade]] in the wrasses closely related to the [[Tribe (biology)|tribe]] Cheilini, and are now commonly referred to as scarine labrids (tribe Scarini, family [[Labridae]]).<ref name="Westneat" /><ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last1=Bellwood |first1=David R. |last2=Schultz |first2=Ortwin |last3=Siqueira |first3=Alexandre C. |last4=Cowman |first4=Peter F. |date=2019 |title=A review of the fossil record of the Labridae |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26595690 |journal=Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie A für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Anthropologie und Prähistorie |volume=121 |pages=125–194 |jstor=26595690 |issn=0255-0091}}</ref> Some authorities have preferred to maintain the parrotfishes as a family-level taxon,<ref name="Randall2007">Randall, J. E. (2007). ''Reef and Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands.'' {{ISBN|978-1-929054-03-9}}</ref> resulting in Labridae not being [[monophyletic]] (unless split into several families).

The following taxonomic placement is based on Bellwood ''et al'' (2019):<ref name=":4" />
* Tribe '''Scarini<ref name=":4" />'''
** Subtribe [[Scarinae|Scarina]]
*** genus ''[[Bolbometopon muricatum|Bolbometopon]]'' <small>Smith, 1956</small> (1 species)
*** genus ''[[Cetoscarus]]'' <small>Smith, 1956</small> (2 species)
*** genus ''[[Chlorurus]]'' <small>Swainson, 1839</small> (18 species)
*** genus ''[[Hipposcarus]]'' <small>Smith, 1956</small> (2 species)
*** genus ''[[Scarus]]'' <small>Forsskål, 1775</small> (53 species)
** Subtribe [[Sparisomatinae|Sparisomatina]]
*** genus ''[[Calotomus]]'' <small>Gilbert, 1890</small> (5 species)
*** genus ''[[Cryptotomus]]'' <small>Cope, 1870</small> (1 species)
*** genus ''[[Leptoscarus]]'' <small>Swainson, 1839</small> (1 species)
*** genus ''[[Nicholsina]]'' <small>Fowler, 1915</small> (3 species)
*** genus ''[[Sparisoma]]'' <small>Swainson, 1839</small> (15 species)

Some sources retain the Scaridae as a family, placing it alongside the [[wrasse]]s of the family Labridae and the weed whitings [[Odacidae]] in the [[Order (biology)|order]] [[Labriformes]], part of the [[Percomorpha]]. They also do not support the division of the Scaridae into two subfamilies.<ref name="Nelson5">{{cite book |author1=J. S. Nelson |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |title=Fishes of the World |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |publisher=Wiley |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |edition=5th |pages=429–430}}</ref> However, as such a placement is [[Paraphyly|paraphyletic]], they are placed within the wrasses by ''[[Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes]]''.<ref name=":13">{{Cite web |last1=Fricke |first1=R. |last2=Eschmeyer |first2=W. N. |last3=Van der Laan |first3=R. |date=2025 |title=ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION |url=https://www.calacademy.org/eschmeyers-catalog-of-fishes-classification |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=California Academy of Sciences |language=en}}</ref>

Fossil remains of parrotfishes are known dating back to the [[Early Miocene]] of [[Java]], Indonesia.<ref name=":4" />