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Sparisoma viride
Photo take at -45 ft on a Caribbean reef. Grate Parrotfish wait his turn on top of a hard coral to get clean by cleaning goby´s. Colorful and abundant fish. Young adults and females with scales outlined in darker gray; often bright red below. Super males green, with bright yellow spot at upper edge of gill cover, yellow bar at base of tail, curved orange-yellow mark on caudal fin rays. Initial phase fish with a brown head, the scales of the upper two-thirds of the body with pale centers and dark brown edges, the lower third of body and fins bright red. Terminal phase males are green with three diagonal orange bands on upper half of head
Found on coral reef from Florida, all the Caribbean sea to Brazil. It is normally found during the day between 15–80 ft.
On the last photo you can see a Caribbean cleaning goby / Elacatinus evelynae cleaning the parrotfish teethe.
15 Comments
Thanks Leanne!
Wow! These are the most amazing photos of such a beautiful fish!
Thanks Mary your very kind!
I so love your underwater spottings...this is one beautiful fish. Great photo series and information as well.
Thanks Atul and Tanya!
what a lovely dentist that parrotfish has, perhaps it got a gill cleaning too? :) Great colors, nice series.
lovely series !
Thanks Erick i like that one too for the smile! :)
Thanks Misako, Tyler, Karen and Donna:)
Great series. Particularly like how the fish seem to smile at you in the first photo :-)
amazing color!
beautiful!
Love the blue highlights on it!
Wow, great series Gerardo!
Gracias harsuame !
Bellos colores genial