stoplight parrotfish
Sparisoma viride (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Open encyclopedia reference
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.
Wikipedia contributors, Stoplight parrotfish; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T07:47:31.862321+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Sparisoma viride (Bonnaterre, 1788)
- Name authority
- (Bonnaterre, 1788)
- Common name
- stoplight parrotfish
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Sparisoma
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: yes · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- gigaclassActinopterygii
- superclassActinopteri
- classTeleostei
- familyLabridae Cuvier, 1816
- subfamilyScarinae Rafinesque, 1810
- tribeSparisomatini Gill, 1893
- genusSparisoma Swainson, 1839
- speciesSparisoma viride (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Sparisoma. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| European parrotfishSparisoma cretense (Linnaeus, 1758) | LabridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sparisoma strigatum (Günther, 1862) | LabridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sparisoma griseorubrum Cervigón, 1982 | LabridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sparisoma tuiupiranga Gasparini, Joyeux & Floeter, 2003 | LabridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Scarus viridis Bonnaterre, 1788 Bonnaterre, 1788 | ambiguous synonym |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=273780 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:6YVG5. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.