Home > Fishes > Parrotfishes > Calotomus zonarchus Family Scaridae HAWAII - ENDEMIC Calotomus zonarchus
Male, USS Macaw, Midway
Atoll, 40 feet Subadult, Angel Ledge,
Midway Atoll, 80 feet
Female, Angel Ledge,
Midway Atoll, 80 feet
Juvenile, Waimea Bay, Oahu, 25 feet Juvenile, Kahe Point, Oahu, 30 feet YELLOWBAR PARROTFISH Quite
rare around the Main Hawaiian Islands but locally common in the
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Rough
jaws of fused pebble-like teeth graze tough seaweed. Females
mottled gray-brown with tiny white dots and a pale bar behind the
pectoral fins, males greenish-gray with a yellow bar with white
spots behind the pectoral fin and red cheeks. Attains 12 inches.
Endemic to Hawai'i. |
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