Sparisoma
id:
sparisoma-218-2334082
title:
Sparisoma
text:
Sparisoma is a genus of parrotfishes native to warmer parts of the Atlantic. FishBase recognizes 15 species in this genus, including S. rocha described from Trindade Island in 2010 and S. choati described from the East Atlantic in 2012. They are the most important grazers of algae in the Caribbean Sea, especially since sea urchins, especially Diadema, the other prominent consumers of algae, have been reduced in many places by a recent epidemic. The name was proposed by William John Swainson as a
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Genus of fishes
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparisoma
date created:
2006-02-25T00:44:24Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T07:27:16Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q946029","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q946029"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Sparisoma_viride.jpg","width":683,"height":1024}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16