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Queen parrotfish males are territorial, and defend a large area that contains both their feeding ground and their mates. When a defending male meets an intruder of the same species, they spread their fins and display their flank.
The queen parrotfish secretes a mucus cocoon in which it sleeps at night. The cocoon acts to isolate the scent of the parrotfish, making it less vulnerable to predators.
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Queen Parrotfish
Scarus vetula
As parrotfishes grow up, they don't just get bigger, they also change color and sometimes transform from females into males. They have deep, compressed bodies, and their teeth are fused into beaklike plates.
QUEEN PARROTFISH
SUBORDER ZOARCOIDEI
Includes ronquils, eelpouts, pricklebacks, wrymouths, gunnels, wolffishes, quillfishes, prowfishes, graveldivers ...
Scarus vetula, Queen Parrotfish
Scarus niger, Dusky Parrotfish
Scarus ghobban, Blue-barred Parrotfish
Sciaenops ocellatus, Red Drum
Scomberomorous maculatus, Spanish Mackerel
Scomberomorus cavalla, King Mackerel
Scomberomorus regalis, Cero ...
 See also: Coral, Parrotfish, Parrot, Whale, Grouper
  
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