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Stoplight Parrotfish
Sparisoma viride
20.8481, -86.8759
Field Notes
Description:
Photo take at -35 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.
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Habitat:
Inhabitant of the coral reef found from Florida all the Caribbean sea to Brazil.
Notes:
Found this great specimen on a cleaning station where some Gobys taking care of it´s parasites .
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Stoplight parrotfish
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PublishedFebruary 29, 2012
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