Common name | Bucktooth parrotfish |
Language | English |
Type | Vernacular |
Official trade name | No |
Rank | 2 - (Preferred common name (unique)) |
Country | Bahamas |
Locality | |
Ref. | Böhlke, J.E. and C.C.G. Chaplin, 1993 |
Life stage | juveniles and adults |
Sex | females and males |
Core | non-fish animal |
1st modifier | morphology |
2nd modifier | |
Remarks | Their fused teeth joined at the front in a groove forming a pair of beak-like tooth plates and their flapping of their pectoral fins during swimming gave them their name parrotfishes (Ref. 5288). |