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Stoplight Parrotfish

Sparisoma viride

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Description:

Photo take at -40 ft in a Caribbean reef, this is the most beautiful of the Caribbean parrotfish, The colors of the stoplight parrotfish in the initial phase, when it could be either a male or a female, are dramatically different from those in the terminal phase, when it is definitely a male.

Habitat:

Inhabitant of the coral reef found from Florida all the Caribbean sea to Brazil.

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Stoplight parrotfish

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Global Coral Reef Monitoring
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Caribbean Reef Fish of Southern Mexico
Mission
Mexico Horn of Plenty

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PublishedFebruary 21, 2012

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