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Parrotfish

Intresting Facts

The scientific name is Scarus.

Food source is algea and coral.

Have a beak like mouth to eat the coral.

Using flattened teeth in its throat grinds up the coral and swallows fragments, digesting the edible parts adn excreting the rest.

Parrotfish Diorama

References:

“Parrotfish”. Animals. 2009. National Geographic Society. 17 Apr.2009 http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/parrot-fish.html

“Parrotfish”. Fish. 2009. Seaworld. 17 Apr. 2009. http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/Animal-bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/deuterostomes/chordata/craniata/osteichthyes/perciformes/parrotfish.htm

“Parrotfish”. Illustrated Wildlife. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1980.

“Parrotfish”. Wildlife Fact-File. 1991.