Calotomus spinidens
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| Calotomus spinidens | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Labridae |
| Genus: | Calotomus |
| Species: | C. spinidens |
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| Calotomus spinidens | |
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Calotomus spinidens, the spinytooth parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish, in the family Scaridae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific from East Africa to Tonga and the Marshall Islands where it is found in seagrass and weaweedbeds located in coastal bays or deep lagoons.[2] The species is diandric which includes primary males (born male) and larger more aggressive secondary males (sex-changed from female), with smaller primary males sometimes participating in spawning by interfering with pair spawnings of the larger secondary males.[3]
