Photo: Julien Bidet for Seamarc · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 40 cm
- 🌊 lagoons and shallow reefs
The daisy parrotfish (also called bullethead parrotfish) is a small, common parrotfish of the lagoon. Males are green with pink marks on the head, females are brown. It grazes algae off the coral and produces sand.
Did you know?
In Tahitian, parrotfish are called ʻuhu. Parrotfish change sex and colour during their lives.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: generic name for parrotfish. French name: Perroquet peau brûlée.
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