#FishFriday 
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“Ceramic bottles modeled and painted in the form of #parrotfish. Moche style, Peru.” [Moche culture c.100-800CE]
On display at @ AMNH NYC [B/3663, 41.2/7779]
The 2nd vessel with the bump on the head likely represents the appropriately named Bumphead Parrotfish (Scarus perrico)!
#IndigenousArt #AndeanArt
The huge Humphead parrotfish
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #dive&stay #giliair #fish #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #humphead #parrotfish #parrot
Vintage Japanese Parrotfish, watercolor.
ART - https://deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/vintage-japanese-parrotfish-deborah-league.html
This awkward fish works harder than you.
Its day job helps prevent an iconic ocean ecosystem from collapsing https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/375178/parrotfish-algae-coral-reef-climate-change #fish #parrotfish #environment #ecosystem #ocean
Guardians of the reef: How #parrotfish promote coral health https://phys.org/news/2024-09-guardians-reef-parrotfish-coral-health.html
Dear enemy effects in the stoplight parrotfish, Sparisoma viride https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.4407
"They have strong, beak-like teeth that allow them to spend up to 90% of the day munching on microscopic organisms that grow on and within the calcium carbonate structures created by #corals. As the #fish remove coral skeletons, they create space for new corals to grow and produce white sand as their digestive waste."
Dancing yeti #crabs, morphing #cuttlefish, other stories from the #DeepSea https://www.npr.org/2024/07/24/1198910431/sabrina-imbler-deep-sea-creatures
As a kid, Sabrina Imbler loved the #ocean. They'd swim, snorkel, following around #parrotfish in the water. Later, they tried to learn everything they could about these brightly colored tropical #fish, like how they produce a mucus bubble to sleep in or how they keep #CoralReefs healthy... In 2022, they released a collection of essays called How Far The Light Reaches: A Life In Ten Sea Creatures.
The world’s fourth mass #CoralBleaching is underway, but well-connected #reefs may have a better chance to recover https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-fourth-mass-coral-bleaching-is-underway-but-well-connected-reefs-may-have-a-better-chance-to-recover-230755
"#Corals remain healthier and recover faster if they are surrounded by #fish that eat different types of #seaweed, such as #parrotfish, #surgeonfish and #rabbitfish. #SeaCucumbers also are important reef partners. They feed on #bacteria and other organic materials in ocean sediments, cleaning up the area around #CoralReefs."
Parrotfish waste accounts for a whopping 85% of all the sand in the Maldives.
Some #Caribbean #parrotfishes find benthic #CyanobacterialMats particularly tasty https://oceanbites.org/some-caribbean-parrotfishes-find-benthic-cyanobacterial-mats-particularly-tasty/
Preferential consumption of benthic cyanobacterial mats by Caribbean parrotfishes https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00338-023-02404-5
"this research shows that #parrotfish grazing may help control the overgrowth of #benthic #cyanobacteria mats in #reefs, providing further support that parrotfishes are critical components of #reef ecosystems"
IOB
Now in issue !
#Evolutionary Patterns of Modularity in the Linkage Systems of the Skull in Wrasses and #Parrotfish
by (@)GartnerSamantha,(@)OlivierLarouch7 ,(@)Sternarchella ,(@)mwestneat on X
A Palenose Parrotfish swimming the waters of south Oahu. These multi-hued fish can grow to 30 cm. Your #Hawaii #sealife #photooftheday
How some #fish learned to hide behind others to hunt https://theconversation.com/how-some-fish-learned-to-hide-behind-others-to-hunt-new-research-211051
Predatory #trumpetfish conceal themselves from their prey by swimming alongside other fish https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00761-3
"#Divers regularly report seeing trumpetfish swimming closely alongside a larger typically less-threatening fish, such as a #parrotfish or #surgeonfish... people assumed this #behaviour allowed trumpetfish to approach closer to their #prey unseen, but this had never been tested –until now."
My husband: "Have a look at the detail in the parrotfish tail! She was resting so I was able to get a good shot"
From a night dive this week near Blackrock.
Aside from the #SchoolShooting, May had never heard of Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
She was surprised to learn she'd been born in MN. Her mother was a concert #Violinist. Hearing her dad read "The Song of #Hiawatha" reduced her to tears & was her earliest memory.
A South Florida #Conservationist, Marj wrote in her seminal #Book, The #Everglades (1947):
"[There are] #Gardens of branching corals... [with] angelfish & #PARROTFISH... Shell creatures are everywhere."
“There are so many weird and wonderful ocean-dwelling creatures, but this particular parrotfish species stands alone with its bizarre overbite, formidable size, prominent forehead, and tendency to travel in large groups.”
In our latest #OneGreatShot, photographer Josh Blank captures a school of bumpheads baring their impressive chompers.
#coralreef #fish #reeffish #parrotfish #GreatBarrierReef #nature #wildlifephotography #underwaterphotography #naturephotography
