It has been found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with its range including Japan, eastern Africa, and the Hawaiian islands.

[1] The species is sexually dimorphic, with the males possessing a bright, greenish-blue color while the females are a duller brown.

[4] Diet includes aquatic plants and benthic algae, which scrape off rocks using their beak.

Ember Parrotfish shows sequential hermaphroditism meaning it changes its sex at some point in its life.

It remains as a female for quite some time and when it grows further, at a body length of 37cm it is about 13 years old, it changes its sex into a male.