Size: 8-10 in.
ID: pink or orange stripes in the blue or green
tail
Class: Actinopterygii / Ray-finned fishes
Order: Perciformes / Perch-like fishes
Family: Scaridae / Parrotfishes
Genus Species: Scarus croicensis /
Striped Parrotfish
Habitat: reefs and sandy areas
Typical food: algae and coral polyps
Other information: gold to yellow spot or
stripe above and behind the pectoral fin; 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; shy; make a hydrodynamic
sound by rapid fin movement on its way to breed
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