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Labridae
spinytooth parrotfish
Calotomus spinidens
Spawning eggs above grassflats on falling tides
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Oceania
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Fusiform
Mediumspinytooth parrotfish is known around Indo-West Pacific as a marine fish; It occurs in reef habitat, and records give a maximum length of 30 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Unnamed Order
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Calotomus
- Maximum length
- 30 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Indo-West Pacific: Kenya to at least Delagoa Bay in Mozambique, and east to the Marshall and Tonga Islands. Presence in Somalia to be confirmed (Ref. 30573 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
