The giant bumphead parrotfish is an amazing fish that can live to be 40 years old, growing up to four feet long and 100 pounds.
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Parrotfish
Synonyms for "parrotfish" (2 found)
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12 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- риба-папагал noun (tropical marine fish)
Catalan
1 entries- peix lloro noun (tropical marine fish)
Finnish
1 entries- papukaijakala noun (tropical marine fish)
German
1 entries- Papageifisch noun (tropical marine fish)
Greek
1 entries- σκάρος noun (tropical marine fish)
Italian
2 entries- pesce pappagallo noun (tropical marine fish)
- scaro noun (tropical marine fish)
Mokilese
1 entries- dopwurpwur noun (tropical marine fish)
Polish
1 entries- papugoryba noun (tropical marine fish)
Portuguese
1 entries- peixe-papagaio noun (tropical marine fish)
Russian
1 entries- ры́ба-попуга́й noun (tropical marine fish)
Spanish
1 entries- pez loro noun (tropical marine fish)
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The famous white-sand beaches of Hawaii, for example, actually come from the poop of parrotfish. The fish bite and scrape algae off of rocks and dead corals with their parrot-like beaks, grind up the inedible calcium-carbonate reef material (made mostly of coral skeletons) in their guts, and then excrete it as sand.
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Parrotfish bite and scrape algae off of rocks and dead corals with their parrot-like beaks; grind the inedible calcium carbonate (reef material made mostly of coral skeletons) which is excreted as sand back onto the reef.
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