Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Scaridae > Scarus > Scarus taeniopterus

Scarus taeniopterus (Blue chub; Painted-tail parrotfish; Princess Parrotfish; Sammy johnson; Snotty parrot)

Synonyms: Pseudoscarus lineolatus; Scarus bollmani; Scarus emblematicus; Scarus virginalis
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Wikipedia Abstract

The princess parrotfish (Scarus taeniopterus) is a tropical reef parrotfish, typically 20 to 25 cm long, found in the Caribbean, South Florida, the Bahamas, and Bermuda. Its behavior, similar to other parrotfishes, is to swim about the reef and sandy patches during the day, at depths between 3 and 25 m, scraping algae on which it feeds.
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Predators

Caranx ruber (Bar jack)[1]
Carcharhinus perezii (Caribbean reef shark)[1]
Epinephelus morio (Red grouper)[1]
Gymnothorax vicinus (Purple-mouthed moray eel)[1]
Lutjanus cyanopterus (Guasinuco)[1]

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Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Food Habits of Reef Fishes of the West Indies, John E. Randall, Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. 5, 665–847 (1967)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0