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Labridae
parrotfish
Sparisoma cretense
Wrasse of the Mediterranean Sea
parrotfish is a marine fish of Eastern Atlantic. The species occupies marine waters. The largest recorded length is 50 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Unnamed Order
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Sparisoma
- Maximum length
- 50 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Eastern Atlantic: Portugal, Azores and Madeira south to the Canary Islands and Senegal. Mediterranean Sea: more common in the eastern and southern coasts.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

