Bucktooth parrotfish
📖 Overview
Mostly found in seagrass beds in shallow, protected waters. Feeds primarily on epiphytes and seagrass blades, leaving crescent bite marks. Darts into seagrass when frightened .
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Dorsal spines (total): 9; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 9. Front of upper jaw has horizontal canine-like tusks. 2 scales between bases of pelvic fins . Drab-phase fish are olivaceous to yellowish brow, finely speckled with pale dots, many are conjoined; base and axil of pectoral fins broadly blue-green. Terminal-phase males are greenish brown with faint pale dots, some scales with reddish edges; irregular orange-red markings on opercle; a blackish bar at pectoral base; a broad blackish border posteriorly on caudal fin .: fusiform / normal.
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Bucktooth parrotfish is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
Diet information for Bucktooth parrotfish is currently being compiled.
🥚 Reproduction
Reproduction data for Bucktooth parrotfish is currently being compiled.
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; reef-associated; depth range 1 - 12 m . Tropical; 33°N - 30°S, 89°W - 31°W central America to Santa Catarina, Brazil (Ref.
🌿 Ecology
epiphytes and seagrass blades, leaving crescent bite marks
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
🛡️ Conservation Assessment
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🌐 Names & Taxonomy
| Language | Common Names |
|---|---|
| 🇬🇧English | Bucktooth parrotfish · Kwab · Pink Parrot · Sleep on Grass |
| 🏳️Catalan | Peix lloro críptic |
| 🌍CES | ploskozubec kolozubý |
| 🇫🇷French | Perroquet aile-noire |
| 🇮🇹Italian | Pesce pappagallo pinna nera |
| 🇵🇹Portuguese | Bodião-verde · Budião · Peixe-papagaio-de-dente-torto · batata · budião-de-alga · papagaio-anão · papagaio-verde-dentuço |
| 🇷🇺Russian | Клыкастая лора |
| 🇪🇸Spanish | Jabón · Loro Aletanegra · Loro de Limo · loro dientudo · loro dientuso |
🔍 Similar Species
🗺️ Global Occurrence Map
Occurrence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - 82 records indexed .
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