Parrot Fish

The adult of this species has a highly variable green to purplish or bluish body with a pink patch on the pectoral fin region. Usually, there is a lime green saddle on tail base and a green patch on its cheek. The subadult has a gray back and reddish lower body with four wide brown bars on midbody and narrow yellowish bars between its tail base. Lives solitary or forms small groups in reef areas, 2 - 18 m depth.

The adult has a dark reddish brown or purplish green body with red lips and a yellow to green spot or streak behind the eye. There are dark bands around its mouth. The subadult has a red head, belly and fins except for the tail, with wavy black and white stripes on body to foretail. Also, there are dark bands around mouth and eye. The juvenile has a black to red brown body with numerous small white spots. The tail is translucent and often displays a white bar across tail base. Lives solitary or forms small groups in reef areas, 1 - 20 m depth.

The adult has a blue to green body with salmon to pink scale margins. Usually there is a pale salmon area located above and behind pectoral fin. There are blue to green bands on chin and behind eye. The subadult has a yellow or yellow green body with four or five diffuse blue bars on sides. There are blue bands around mouth and eye with blue fin margins. Lives solitary in reef areas, 2 - 30 m depth.

The adult of this species has variable bicolor with brown head and forebody and pale green rear body or vice versa. There is a green band from snout to pectoral fin. Sometimes, there is an elongate yellow patch on tail base. The subadult has a pale yellowish green to light gray body with dark gray tail and bright yellow pectoral fin. Lives solitary or forms groups in reef areas, 8 - 40 m depth.

The adult has a dark bluish to greenish gray body with a large blue-green to green area over nape and upper forebody. There are dark and pale bands from eye to pectoral fin. The subadult has a yellowish body with gray head and three gray saddle bars on back. May have whitish stripe from eye to tail. Lives solitary or forms groups in reef areas, 1 - 25 m depth.

For the adult, this species has a green body with pink to lavender scale edges. There is a large pale yellowish to greenish patch on cheek with green border. It also has a dark green margin and borders on tail. The subadult has a dark brown body with three or four faint pale whitish bars. The tail base is orange to bright yellow. Lives solitary or forms groups in reef areas, 3 - 35 m depth.

This species has a brown or greenish brown body with a broken stripe of rose spots running below the dorsal fin. Usually forms groups in reef areas, 1 - 25 m depth.

Large body with a hump on forehead, base color is greenish gray, or green-brown with 5 vertical rows of whitish spots on side. It uses its head and fused dentition to break coral and feed on it. Found in groups of up to 40. Size up to 126 cm.

This species is green with pinkish-red spots and lines on its head, a band extending from the mouth to the belly, and stripes or bands on its fins. It can grow up to 80 cm in length. A juvinile face of this species has a white base color with a broad orange bar encircling the head from the eye to the rear gill cover, a large orange-edged black spot on the dorsal fin, and an orange outer tail. This colour variation reaches a size of 5–10 cm.