Size: 12-24 in.
ID: Dark blue-green mouth markings, light bar on
pectoral fin
Class: Actinopterygii / Ray-finned fishes
Order: Perciformes / Perch-like fishes
Family: Scaridae / Parrotfishes
Genus Species: Scarus vetula / Queen
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;
hermaphroditic and the female becomes a terminal male; sleep at night
in a mucus cocoon
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