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Parrotfish
الحريد
al-Hareed
Beginner✓ CommonScaridae
Parrotfish are the vivid green, blue and pink reef grazers named for their beak-like fused teeth. In Egypt they are caught only by day among the coral, where they scrape algae off the reef. Bright, abundant and a familiar sight (and catch) on Red Sea reefs.
Local names · what anglers actually call it
الحريدal-Hareed
parrotfish; caught only in the daytime among the reef
Parrotfish make sand: they grind up coral to eat the algae and excrete the calcium carbonate — a single fish can produce hundreds of kilos of white sand a year.