14 November 2007


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Stoplight Parrotfish / Grand Cayman BWI

Genus species: Sparisoma viride
Habitat: reefs and sandy areas
Typical food: algae and coral polyps
Other information: their "beaks" are used to scrape algae and polyps from coral and rocks, but in this process a lot of limestone is also eaten and ground in their gullets so that they excrete much sand for the tropics; shy; at night often sleep in their protective mucous membrane

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