parrotfish

Meaning

Any of several tropical marine fish of the family Scaridae known for their beak-like mass of teeth used to scrape algae from rocks or coral.

Synonyms

polly fish

pollyfish

rainbow wrasse

bluehead wrasse

sordidus

blue mah

blue wrasse

blunt-headed wrasse

bluntheaded wrasse

crescent wrasse

doctor fish

five striped surge wrasse

five-stripe surge wrasse

rainbow fish

bluehead

giant pigfish

lyretail wrasse

ornate wrasse

purple wrasse

red-banded wrasse

red-ribbon wrasse

two-tone wrasse

western blue groper

fivestripe wrasse

moon wrasse

Gould’s wrasse

blackspot wrasse

blue head

Translations

Scarus jonesi

scare

Callyodon pulchellus

Scarus

Scaridae

scaridae

σκάρος

scare

poisson-perroquet

labride verde e blu

scaridé

Achoerodus gouldii

Hippopotamyrus discorhynchus

Scarus vetula

poissons perroquets

Etymology

From parrot + fish.