Redfin parrotfish

📖 Overview

Inhabits coral reefs and seagrass beds. Juveniles or primary-phase fish can rapidly assume a mottled pattern as it comes to rest on the bottom. Spawning is usually a group activity in similarly colored males and females . A protogynous hermaphrodite .

🔬 Taxonomy

🐟 Physical Description

Dorsal spines (total): 9; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 9. Juveniles and adults in drab phase (which are either mature males or females) are light grayish brown, nearly white ventrally; alternate dark and pale bars cross the chin; caudal peduncle and fin yellow; anal and pelvic fins red. Terminal phase males are dull green or blue-green with a large black spot on upper half of pectoral fin base; pectoral fins dark olive, the outer fifth abruptly pale .: fusiform / normal.

🌀 Behaviour

Behavioural data for Redfin parrotfish is currently being reviewed.

🦐 Diet

🥚 Reproduction

Although protogyny was propossed for this species , probably because testicular characteristics showed a secondary characteristic of sex-changed males, observations of overlapping size ranges of males and females, and males maturing at the same ages and sizes as did females, strongly suggest gonochorism . A monandric species . Length at sex change = 25.0 cm TL . Forms leks during breeding .

🌍 Habitat & Distribution

Marine; reef-associated; depth range 1 - 15 m . Tropical; 42°N - 7°N, 88°W - 59°W Southwest Atlantic specimens referring to Sparisoma axillare and Eastern Atlantic species referring to S.

🌿 Ecology

📐 Morphometrics

🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance

🛡️ Conservation Assessment

📊 Population Risk & Fisheries

🌐 Names & Taxonomy

Scientific Synonyms

🐠 Related Species

🔍 Similar Species

🗺️ Global Occurrence Map

Occurrence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - 331 records indexed .

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