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Created 9/29/2024

Family Scaridae

HAWAII

  Calotomus cf. spinidens

Male, Barber's Point, Oahu 120 feet

 

Female, Barber's Point, Oahu, 120 feet

 

  

 
   

SEAWEED PARROTFISH

Locally common but rarely seen as mobile aggregations hidden in dense green seaweed beds deeper than 100 feet.  Known from leeward Maui and Oahu.  Similar to, or may be a local form of Indo-Pacific Calotomus spinidens.