#2278 · 🐟 fish

Stoplight Parrotfish

Sparisoma viride

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The stoplight parrotfish ( Sparisoma viride ) is a species of parrotfish inhabiting coral reefs in Florida, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Bermuda and as far south as Brazil. Like most of its relatives, it is able to change sex. 5 ft (30–45 cm), but it can reach up to 2 ft (64 cm). It is normally found during the day at depths between 15 and 80 ft (5–25 m), but can be found from 10 to 165 ft...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,229iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
7,229 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre in 1788 (238 years ago).