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Loro barbazul (Scarus ghobban), La Paz, Baja California, México, 2024-12-20, DD 55
2024-12-20
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- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
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About this work
Blue-barred parrotfish (Scarus ghobban), La Paz, Baja California, Mexico. Scarus ghobban grows to approximately 46 centimetres (18 in) and can live up to 13 years. It's widespread throughout the Indo-Pacific, known from East Africa to Indonesia. Like all other parrotfishes, their teeth grow continuously and they feed on coral, rock or seagrasses. After they digest the edible portions from the rock, they excrete it as sand, helping create small islands and the sandy beaches. The humphead parrotfish can produce on average 250 grains (0.57 oz) of sand per day.
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