Species of fish
| Calotomus spinidens
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Conservation status
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 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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Scientific classification
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| Domain:
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Eukaryota
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Chordata
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| Class:
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Actinopterygii
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| Order:
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Labriformes
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| Family:
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Scaridae
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| Genus:
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Calotomus
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| Species:
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C. spinidens
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| Binomial name
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Calotomus spinidens
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
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| Synonyms[2]
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- Scarus spinidens Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
- Callyodon spinidens (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
- Cryptotomus spinidens (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
- Callyodon waigiensis Valenciennes, 1840
- Callyodon hypselosoma Bleeker, 1855
- Callyodon moluccensis Bleeker, 1861
- Leptoscarus moluccensis (Bleeker, 1861)
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Calotomus spinidens, the spinytooth parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish, in the family Scaridae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific from East Africa to Tonga and the Marshall Islands where it is found in seagrass and weaweedbeds located in coastal bays or deep lagoons.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Russell, B.; Choat, J.H.; Clements, K.D.; Rocha, L.A.; Myers, R.; Lazuardi, M.E.; Muljadi, A.; Pardede, S.; Rahardjo, P. (2012). "Calotomus spinidens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T190685A17799481. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T190685A17799481.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Calotomus spinidens" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
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Taxon identifiers |
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| Calotomus spinidens | |
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| Scarus spinidens | |
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