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title: "Stoplight Parrotfish"
description: "Sparisoma viride — Peixes. The stoplight parrotfish (Sparisoma viride) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish from the family Scaridae, inhabiting coral reefs in Florida, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Bermuda and as far south as Brazil."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/stoplight-parrotfish
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Stoplight Parrotfish

> Sparisoma viride — Peixes. The stoplight parrotfish (Sparisoma viride) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish from the family Scaridae, inhabiting coral reefs in Florida, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Bermuda and as far south as Brazil.

- Scientific name: *Sparisoma viride*
- Category: `fish` (Peixes)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 7090
- Wikidata: [Q2700140](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2700140)
- iNaturalist taxon: [112867](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/112867)

## Names

- en: Stoplight Parrotfish
- de: Ampel-Papageifisch
- es: Pez loro
- fr: Perroquet feu tricolore
- pl: Sparysoma szmaragdowa

## Countries with the most observations

MX (925), US (666), HN (589), BZ (431), BS (304), CW (267), KY (253), VI (241), PR (161), TC (153), CU (152), PA (144)

## Summary

The stoplight parrotfish (Sparisoma viride) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish from the family Scaridae, inhabiting coral reefs in Florida, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Bermuda and as far south as Brazil. 
It mainly feeds on algae by scraping and excavating it with its teeth. Like most parrotfish, it is able to change sex.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoplight_parrotfish

## Photo

![Stoplight Parrotfish](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/stoplight-parrotfish/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/78946520

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/stoplight-parrotfish?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).