{"id":7606,"date":"2023-08-30T09:55:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T09:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/?post_type=vrsta&#038;p=7606"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:52:17","slug":"mediterranean-parrotfish","status":"publish","type":"vrsta","link":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/vrsta\/mediterranean-parrotfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediterranean parrotfish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;Mediterranean parrotfish (Lat.<em> Sparisoma cretense<\/em>). It is found at depths up to 50 m along rocky shores in the Mediterranean and the eastern Atlantic. Adults reach a maximum length of about 52 cm, but most are 15\u201330 cm (6\u201312 in) long. The adult females are red with a yellow-edged greyish saddle shape on the back and a yellow spot at the base of the tail. The males are overall greyish with paler underparts and no distinctive markings, although typically with blackish bars on the throat and opercular. If stressed, they adopt a pattern with broad horizontal white stripes. It feeds primarily on epilithic and coralline algae, but may also take epiphytic algae (growing on seagrass) and small invertebrates. As its relatives, this parrotfish starts as female and then changes to male.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7607,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vrsta\/7606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vrsta"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/vrsta"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vrsta\/7606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8213,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vrsta\/7606\/revisions\/8213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquariumboka.ucg.ac.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}