Biology:Sparisoma rocha
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Short description: Species of fish
| Sparisoma rocha | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Scaridae |
| Genus: | Sparisoma |
| Species: | S. rocha
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| Binomial name | |
| Sparisoma rocha Pinheiro, Gasparini & I. Sazima, 2010
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Sparisoma rocha or Trindade parrotfish is a species of parrotfish endemic to the islands of Trindade and Martin Vaz in southeastern Brazil .[1] The species can be distinguished from its congeners easily by its coloration. S. rocha is a herbivore, grazing on algae that grows on rocks or coralline substrate.[2]
Etymology
It was named after Luiz A. Rocha to honor his contributions to ichthyology.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pinheiro, Hudson Tercio; Gasparini, João Luiz; Sazima, Ivan (2010-06-03). "Sparisoma rocha , a new species of parrotfish (Actinopterygii: Labridae) from Trindade Island, South-western Atlantic" (in en). Zootaxa 2493 (1): 59–65. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2493.1.5. ISSN 1175-5334. https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2493.1.5.
- ↑ "Sparisoma rocha, Trindade parrotfish". https://www.fishbase.se/summary/65546.
Wikidata ☰ Q6409392 entry
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