FB-13024 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=13024 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Centrarchiformes Kyphosidae Kyphosus Kyphosus cornelii (Whitley, 1944) Bodião Papagaio Papagaio-velho Peixe-papagaio Veja Véja Bbghaa agouz Ghazla Zellkh Zilleyq ﺔﻟﺰﻗ Almindelig papegøjefisk Europæisk papegøjefisk Papageifisch Seepapagei Parrot fish Parrotfish Perroquet Perroquet vieillard Papigača Cucca Marzapani Papagaddu Pesce pappagallo Pisci pappajaddu Scaro Scaro di Creta Scaru Scauru Tuddu Martspan Martzpan Marzipan Marzpan Kretensisk papegojfisk Girit balıği Iskaroz İskaroz balığı Papağan balıği Papağan balığı Scaros Loro viejo Vieja Viela colorada Bidião Morska papiga Skaros Vella Σκάρος 异齿鹦鲷 異齒鸚鯛 肩斑真鸚嘴魚 肩斑真鹦嘴鱼 Calliodon rubiginosus (Valenciennes, 1840) Euscarus cretensis (Linnaeus, 1758) Labrus cretensis Linnaeus, 1758 Scarus canariensis Valenciennes, 1838 Scarus cretense (Linnaeus, 1758) Scarus cretensis (Linnaeus, 1758) Scarus mutabilis Lowe, 1838 Scarus rubiginoides Guichenot, 1865 Scarus rubiginosus Valenciennes, 1840 Scarus siculus Cocco, 1846 Sparidosoma cretense (Linnaeus, 1758) Sparisoma cretensis (Linnaeus, 1758) Sparisoma flavescens (non Bloch & Schneider, 1801) 1995-05-04 2008-12-09 Linnaeus, C.0 Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordinus, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 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Original author and source must be properly acknowledged WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=13025 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Spcre_u0.gif http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/gif/tn_Spcre_u0.gif FB-pic-13025-19111 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage image/gif FAO 1999-02-14 1999-02-14 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Image can be freely copied and altered but may be used only for non-commercial purposes. Original author and source must be properly acknowledged WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=13025 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#DiagnosticDescription http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Spcre_u1.gif http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/gif/tn_Spcre_u1.gif FB-GeneralDescr-13025 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1995-05-04 00:00:00 2024-05-23 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=13025 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Morphology In shallow water along rocky shores. Feed on algae and small invertebrates (Ref. 6761, 56146). Herbivore species with specialized pharyngeal bones and muscles (Ref. 52194, 52195). Breeding occurs from July to September, with juveniles recruiting in late summer in Portugal (Ref. 56146). Randall, J.E. 1990 Scaridae. p. 883-887. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 7360) FB-Distribution-13025 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1995-05-04 00:00:00 2023-11-06 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=13025 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Eastern Atlantic: Portugal, Azores and Madeira south to the Canary Islands and Senegal. Mediterranean Sea: more common in the eastern and southern coasts. Randall, J.E. 1990 Scaridae. p. 883-887. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 7360) FB-Uses-13025 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1995-05-04 00:00:00 2024-05-23 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=13025 fisheries: commercial Schneider, W. 1990 FAO species identification sheets for fishery purposes. Field guide to the commercial marine resources of the Gulf of Guinea. Prepared and published with the support of the FAO Regional Office for Africa. Rome: FAO. 268 p. (Ref. 2683) FB-LifeCycle-13025 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1995-05-04 00:00:00 2024-05-23 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org//Reproduction/FishReproSummary.php?ID=13025&StockCode=13347 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Males matured at the same ages and sizes as did females, and size ranges of males and females overlapped, strongly suggesting gonochorism for this species (Ref. 103751). Quignard, J.-P. and A. Pras 1986 Scaridae. p. 943-944. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 6761) FB-TrophicStrategy-13025 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Drina Sta. Iglesia 2001-01-11 00:00:00 2018-05-28 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public cretense http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats In shallow water along rocky shores. Feeds on algae and small invertebrates (Ref. 7360). A necto-benthic fish; scraping algae, seagrass at daytime (Ref. 56146). Randall, J.E. 1990 Scaridae. p. 883-887. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 7360) FB-Size-13025 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1995-05-04 00:00:00 2024-05-23 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=13025 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat 50.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 7360)) Randall, J.E. 1990 Scaridae. p. 883-887. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 7360) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#DiagnosticDescription Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-13025 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1995-05-04 00:00:00 2024-05-23 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=13025 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Morphology reef-associated; marine; depth range 20 - 50 m (Ref. 27000) Reiner, F. 1996 Catálogo dos peixes do arquipélago de Cabo Verde. Publ. Avuls. Inst. Port. Invest. Mar. 2:339 p. (Ref. 27000)