Parrot Fish 
ParrotFish (Sparisoma)
By: Shary Hinshaw
Sparisoma is a group of parrotfishes, They are native to warm waters near the Atlantic.
Parrotfish are large fish with a unique beak like mouth. Parrotfish get their name from the form of their mouth. They have 2 beaklike plates, like parrots. They have even rows of huge, noticeable scales on their bodies. The color of the Sparisoma when it is fully grown is a dark green with a bright yellow spot at the higher corner of the gill flap, there is a yellow space at the bottom of the tail and a yellow curved stripe on the tail. the female sometimes has redbrown upper areas with a red belly and plain white dots on the body.
Parrotfish move by swimming. The use their pectoral fins, the fins on the side of their body, to “cruise” around. Parrotfish only use their tail when they need to swim faster, to get away from predators. The Parrot fish is the middle of the food web. The Parrotfish's predators are the Barracuda and the Moray eel. The parrotfish defends itself by making a cocoon to sleep in, out of their own mucus. Parrotfish have extremely special glands within the gill cavities that produce enough of the type of mucus required to envelope themselves from head to toe, beginning at the mouth to protect them and allow them to sleep at the same time.
The Parrotfish applies it's sturdy beaklike jaws to get it's food from the reef. Though it's main diet is algae and seaweed. Parrotfishes are important in the growth of the coral reef, They eat the algae that could suffocate the coral if the parrot fish did not
feed on it. Parrotfishes depend on the coral reefs. Pollution endangers the coral and the animals that live in the coral reefs.
The parrotfishes live in a coral reef biome. The Sparisoma Parrotfish are found in the western Atlantic Ocean from Bermuda to Brazil. They are also found along the coasts of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
An unusual adaptation that the majority of parrotfish share is
By: Shary Hinshaw
Sparisoma is a group of parrotfishes, They are native to warm waters near the Atlantic.
Parrotfish are large fish with a unique beak like mouth. Parrotfish get their name from the form of their mouth. They have 2 beaklike plates, like parrots. They have even rows of huge, noticeable scales on their bodies. The color of the Sparisoma when it is fully grown is a dark green with a bright yellow spot at the higher corner of the gill flap, there is a yellow space at the bottom of the tail and a yellow curved stripe on the tail. the female sometimes has redbrown upper areas with a red belly and plain white dots on the body.
Parrotfish move by swimming. The use their pectoral fins, the fins on the side of their body, to “cruise” around. Parrotfish only use their tail when they need to swim faster, to get away from predators. The Parrot fish is the middle of the food web. The Parrotfish's predators are the Barracuda and the Moray eel. The parrotfish defends itself by making a cocoon to sleep in, out of their own mucus. Parrotfish have extremely special glands within the gill cavities that produce enough of the type of mucus required to envelope themselves from head to toe, beginning at the mouth to protect them and allow them to sleep at the same time.
The Parrotfish applies it's sturdy beaklike jaws to get it's food from the reef. Though it's main diet is algae and seaweed. Parrotfishes are important in the growth of the coral reef, They eat the algae that could suffocate the coral if the parrot fish did not
feed on it. Parrotfishes depend on the coral reefs. Pollution endangers the coral and the animals that live in the coral reefs.
The parrotfishes live in a coral reef biome. The Sparisoma Parrotfish are found in the western Atlantic Ocean from Bermuda to Brazil. They are also found along the coasts of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
An unusual adaptation that the majority of parrotfish share is