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Queen parrotfish ♂️

Scarus vetula

Photo by The MnMs
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12.1961, -68.3051

Field Notes

Description:

The development of parrotfishes is complex and accompanied by a series of changes in color (polychromatism). Most species are sequential hermaphrodites, starting as females (known as the initial phase) and then changing to males (the terminal phase).
I have shown the initial female phase here:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/2059183535
Now, this is the final, male phase.

Habitat:

Oil Slick leap, Bonaire.

Reference Links:

Parrotfish - Wikipedia

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