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Parrot fish (Calotomus)
(credit: Douglas Faulkner)
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| De Palm Tours is putting $5 million toward a new fleet of all-terrain vehicles and Land Rovers and a major renovation to its private De Palm Island, where the construction of slides at its new Parrot Fish water park is almost complete. Several biologists have speculated that this urchin's dominance reflected an overfishing not only of other reef grazers--predominantly parrot fish and surgeon fish--but also of Diadema's many predators, which included toad fish and queen triggerfish. Coral polyps extend tentacles from their protective cups as they feed on planktons, lobsters scoot across the bottom and gorgeous parrot fish that surrounded you during the day snooze in their mucus cocoons at night. |
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