Saltwaterfish. Parrotfishes. Inhabits shallow reefs, wanders around by day scaping algue from corals and rocks.

- Stoplight Parrotfish Sparisoma viride
- Redtail Parrotfish Sparisoma chrysopterum

Size: 15 to 25 cm, max 32.5 cm.
Colour: Male has yellow-green body with red, blue and yellow ptaches on the sides. Initial phase can range from mottled grey-brown with 2 long white stripes, to a green with red fins. Juvenile is reddish-brown with a white stripe, has a distinctive black blotch behind the head.
Shape: Elongated with beaked mouth to scrape at the coral.

Inhabits coral reefs, shallow reefs. Wanders around by day, scaping algue from corals and rocks, with beaked mouth.

BES-eilanden: St. Eustatius.

[Marion Haarsma, feb. 2016]

- DeLoach, N., & Humann, P. (2002). Reef Fish Identification - Florida Caribbean Bahamas - 3th Edition. New World Publications, Inc.

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