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Parrotfishes of the Genus Sparisoma

By Bob Fenner

Sparisoma atomarium Juv.

Genus Sparisoma: Eight species. 

Sparisoma atomarium (Poey 1861), the Greenblotch Parrotfish. To ten inches in length. Tropical West Atlantic. At right: Some initial phase pix taken in the seagrass beds in about twenty feet of water off of Cozumel. Below, juvenile in Jamaica, juvenile, initial and terminal phase individuals off St. Thomas. 
http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=3675&genusname=Sparisoma&speciesname=atomarium
Sparisoma aurofrenatum (Valenciennes 1840), the Redband Parrotfish. Western Atlantic; Bermudas to Brazil. To eleven inches in length. An occasional pet-fish import. Does as well as any other Parrotfish... i.e. not well in captivity. Shown below: 1st row: Juveniles in Jamaica second row: juvenile, Third row: initial (and mottled one from Cozumel) from Cozumel and Bonaire and a terminal phase individuals from the Bahamas. 
http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=1158&genusname=Sparisoma&speciesname=aurofrenatum
Sparisoma radians (Valenciennes 1840), the Bucktooth Parrotfish. 20 cm. Tropical West Atlantic. Here is a terminal phase individual in Grand Turks.
http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=3676&genusname=Sparisoma&speciesname=radians

 
Sparisoma viride (Bonnaterre 1798), the Spotlight Parrotfish. Tropical West Atlantic; Florida to Brazil. To twenty five inches maximum length. Pictured below, juvenile in Bonaire, initial and terminal phase specimens in the Bahamas. 
http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=1161&genusname=Sparisoma&speciesname=viride
 

 


 

 

 

 

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