Blue Parrotfish

Large Blue Parrotfish develop a prominent bulging snout. Like other parrotfishes, the Blue has the characteristic beak-like jaws with fused teeth used for scraping algae from coral and other rocky substrates. It inhabits coral reefs and can be found at depths of 3 to 25 meters in the western Atlantic from Maryland in the US to Bermuda and Bahamas and south to Brazil, and throughout the West Indies.