Princess Parrotfish
Scarus taeniopterus
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Fish
The princess parrotfish is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish, in the family Scaridae. It is typically 20 to 25 centimetres 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 metres, scraping algae on which it feeds.
Classification
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Labriformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Scarus