Sparisoma atomarium Greenblotch parrotfish

Sparisoma atomarium is commonly referred to as Greenblotch parrotfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

7466 

AphiaID:

273771 

Scientific:

Sparisoma atomarium 

German:

Papageifisch 

English:

Greenblotch Parrotfish 

Category:

Parrotfishes 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Scaridae (Family) > Sparisoma (Genus) > atomarium (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Poey, ), 1861 

Occurrence:

Guadeloupe, Barbados, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Ascencion, St. Helena & Tristan da Cunha, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Florida, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico (East Pacific), Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South America, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S. 

Sea depth:

3 - 55 Meter 

Size:

up to 9.84" (25 cm) 

Temperature:

71.6 °F - 82.4 °F (22°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Algae (Algivore), Aquatic plant, Coral polyps = corallivorous 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for home aquaria! 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Sparisoma amplum
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma atomarium
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma aurofrenatum
  Rotband-Papageienfisch
• 
  Sparisoma axillare
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma choati
  "Westafrikanischer" Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma chrysopterum
  Rotschwanz-Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma cretense
  Europäischer Papageienfisch
• 
  Sparisoma frondosum
  Agassiz-Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma griseorubrum
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma radians
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma rocha
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma rubripinne
  Gelbschwanz-Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma strigatum
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma tuiupiranga
  Papageifisch
• 
  Sparisoma viride
  Stoplicht-Pagageienfisch, Grüner Papageifisch, Ampel-Papageifisch
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Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2014-08-23 15:42:36 

Last edit:

2019-11-29 16:07:55 

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