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
Binomial name
Calotomus spinidens
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
Synonyms [2]
  • Scarus spinidensQuoy & Gaimard, 1824
  • Callyodon spinidens(Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
  • Cryptotomus spinidens(Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
  • Callyodon waigiensis Valenciennes, 1840
  • Callyodon hypselosoma Bleeker, 1855
  • Callyodon moluccensisBleeker, 1861
  • Leptoscarus moluccensis(Bleeker, 1861)

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]

References

  1. ↑ Russell, B.; Choat, J.H.; Clements, K.D.; Rocha, L.A.; Myers, R.; Lazuardi, M.E.; Muljadi, A.; Pardede, S.; Rahardjo, P. (2012). "Calotomus spinidens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2012 e.T190685A17799481. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T190685A17799481.en . Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Calotomus spinidens". FishBase . December 2019 version.
  3. ↑ Robertson, D. R., Reinboth, R., & Bruce, R. W. (1982). Gonochorism, protogynous sex change and spawning in three Sparisomatinine parrotfishes from the western Indian Ocean. Bulletin of Marine Science, 32(4), 868–879.


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