Size: 1-3 ft.
ID: Navy blue with very bright blue face markings
Class: Actinopterygii / Ray-finned fishes
Order: Perciformes / Perch-like fishes
Family: Scaridae / Parrotfishes
Genus Species: Scarus coelestinus /
Midnight Parrotfish
Habitat: reefs and sandy areas
Typical food: algae and coral polyps
Other information: their "beaks" are used to scrape
algae and polyps from coral and rocks, but in this process
a lot of limestone is also eaten and ground in their gullets so that
they excrete much sand; shy
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