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scarus frenatus
A pair of male (light and dark green) and female (redish brown) bridled parrotfish, amid a school of other fish. The species grows to 47 cm in length. They all start as females and some of them change sex to become males.
MacKay Reef, Great Barrier Reef.
Any help of IDing the other fish?
Spotted on Sep 5, 2010
Submitted on Jul 6, 2011
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Cool.. I did not know that you can upload videos too? How???
Yep, loving the video feature.
Got the id last night, from a dinner guest at our house, who actually did his Ph.D dissertation on scarus frenatus. Small world. ;)
He also thought the fish coming into frame on the left of the photo is Lutjans bohar.
Thanks Elsa I know very little about corals, I'll have to look them up.
Lori the flat ones are Acropora table coral :) Fan corals are soft corals such as gorgonians. The big knobbly coral in your picture looks a lot like Porites either P. lobata or P. lutea..
Marta, I only know the flat corals as "fan" coral. Is there a difference? There were also enormous brain corals at this reef.
The flat looking coral is commonly known as table coral (I don´t know the species)