Dark Green Parrotfish
Sparisoma viride
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Eupercaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Scaridae
- Genus
- Sparisoma
Where to Find
Found in 58 diving areas across 30 countries and 4 regions.
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 19 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 12 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 10 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 119 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 136 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 14011 records
- Eleuthera & Harbour Island, Bahamas - 8 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 10 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 14 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 155 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 25 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 22 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 14 records
- Klein Bonaire, Bonaire - 41 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 2859 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 2081 records
- Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands - 200 records
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands - 408 records
- Isla de la Juventud, Cuba - 389 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 248 records
- María la Gorda, Cuba - 17 records
- Varadero, Cuba - 20 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 26 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 2 records
- Soufriere-Scotts Head Marine Reserve, Dominica - 5 records
- Bayahibe & La Romana, Dominican Republic - 11 records
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - 82 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 19 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 52 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 51 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 10 records
- Montego Bay, Jamaica - 187 records
- Negril, Jamaica - 139 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 116 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 10 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 10 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 2641 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 2132 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 2094 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 114 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 50 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 50 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 20 records
- Providenciales, Turks & Caicos - 45 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 3405 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 3024 records
- Ambergris Caye, Belize - 357 records
- Lighthouse Reef, Belize - 433 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 241 records
- Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica - 21 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 269 records
- Utila, Honduras - 464 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 56 records
- Cozumel, Mexico - 42 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 113 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 4525 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 130 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 19 records