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What (who) is Parrotfish - definition

FAMILY OF FISHES

Scaridae; Parrotfishes; Parrot fish; Parrot-fish; Pollyfish; Scarid; Parotfish; Scarus perspicillatus

parrotfish

¦ noun (plural same or parrotfishes)

1. a brightly coloured sea fish with a parrot-like beak. [Scarus and other genera.]

2. Austral./NZ a brightly coloured wrasse.

Zambezi parrotfish

SPECIES OF FISH

Cyphomyrus discorhynchus

The Zambezi parrotfish (Cyphomyrus discorhynchus) is an elephantfish in the family Mormyridae. It occurs in several river and lake systems across Central Africa and the northern half of Southern Africa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zambezi_parrotfish

Sparisoma rubripinne

SPECIES OF FISH

Yellowtail parrotfish; Redfin parrotfish

Sparisoma rubripinne, which also goes by the common names yellowtail parrotfish or redfin parrotfish is a species of parrotfish in the genus Sparisoma. It can be found in the Western Atlantic Ocean, and is primarily found in the Caribbean Sea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparisoma_rubripinne

Wikipedia

Parrotfish

Parrotfishes are a group of fish species regarded as a family (Scaridae), or a subfamily (Scarinae) of the wrasses. With roughly 95 species, this group's largest species richness is in the Indo-Pacific. They are found in coral reefs, rocky coasts, and seagrass beds, and can play a significant role in bioerosion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrotfish

Examples of use of Parrotfish

1. You use a lawn mower to keep grass under control," Bellwood said of the parrotfish and surgeonfish.

2. "We were stunned because we expected the parrotfish or some other fishes to be feeding on the algae," said David R.

3. There are parrotfish with buck teeth plucking at the hard corals and dozens of porcupine fish busily patrolling the crevices between the boulders.

4. What they found was that some fish, such as the parrotfish and surgeonfish, were able to control growth of some algae but only the batfish could remove the most problematic algae blooms _ which can overrun and kill a reef.

5. ––––––– E–mail Mobile Desktop Alerts RSS News Ticker AvantGo Make Home Page Ad Info About Us How To Get CNN Partner Hotels CNNtext Languages ––––––––– Korean Arabic Japanese Turkish Hawaiian waters become world‘s largest marine sanctuary A blue parrotfish swims by coral in the waters of the Midway Atoll, which will be in the new sanctuary.