Talk:Parrotfish

message: Hello you all. This first time I make contributing for Wikipedia. I make user naming to talking with you all. I visit some friend in France and using his computer to make the contact with you all. 
I be study the fish call Sparisoma cretense for longtime and but my English is not so good so I try to help. 
Skaros, name gave to the fish by some writers in antique time is nowadays existing off coast of west part africa and in mediterranean sea, but alone in east part, most of time in Aegean sea and south part tyrrhenian sea and some of the island greeks. It no be on Mediterranean coastal part of Morocco, not coast Algeria and alone sometime in Tunisia only but it found near Lampedusa. Reporting 1 fish come from Cadix in Spanish (Otero y Galeote) is no usually and nowadays you go Barcelona you no find the fish. It never be on coast France. More 1000 year ago Lucien makes report from ‘Mauritanie’ and this make some confusing being cause that was ancient name for today Morocco.
You all can look to D’Arcy Thompson book on the greeks fish. Too, the book today talking about the greeks fish don’t make the mention skaros
Other hand, this fish living in the seagrasses most of time down towards the 15 meters not 50. Going around ashore island and canaries island it maybe go more deep so it seem like both the correcting is good just the different ideas.
Specially though but the west part of Africa there no be some coral that make the reef. In the Caribe sea some time sparisoma take the food on reef but sleeping in the seagrass near by to a reef (Bruggemann) such coincident with molecule data to saying that the eating on reef is recent evolution (Streelman).
Also too a closer fish Leptoscarus no live in Mediterranean but I study the fish from red sea and at that place it not big alone 20 cm. I never seen one more big that, so I thinking, yes it one of most small parrotfish. I study too one most big parrotfish 1 meter 65 cm of the Bolbometapon and that fish no eating all of the times the alive coral – only some of the times.
The Skaros no eating rocks but taking up of the organisms that do growing on the plants and they are like chewing up the food makes the jaws to and fro moving. That why the ancient peoples give the name ruminant of sea and calling the Skaros sea cow. (Look to Aristote or Martial)
I making the small commentaries to try helping to the peoples do correcting text. I hoping it worked good, get you all more happy. I say too I am knowing personal the one people who make the life study of Skaros with man named Liem, now died, so yes good expert. The other peoples making to try correction I don’t know. 
I give the big apologize for mine bad English. In next times I write greek and make the translating with computer. You want write me be using the google mail, so good. My address is greekfishgeekt@gmail.com  
Good-Bye you all.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greekfishgeek (talk • contribs) 11:13, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  mine contribution

message: Can't figure out how to fix the citation error - the author's name should be Alfonso (with an 'l') and not afonso and it should be in connection with the little paragraph on development of the species Sparisoma cretense - the text is there but I don't see the reference listed and can't see how to fix the citation - can you help thx 
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Thescarid (talk) 16:24, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: That's wrong. His name is Afonso (without l, not Alfonso). I strongly suggest you check the actual reference where the name is written repeately (there's a working link to Afonso's article in the reference section) or his official page. Additionally, you made some edits to various sections with references (incl. Afonso's) and it was quite evident that you had not actually read them. Please don't do that. Info in wiki articles should always match their references, especially sentences that use inline references (WP:V). If you want to change such a sentence, please provide a new reference that supports your change. 80.62.116.136 (talk) 12:58, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation error

message: Hey, was just watching Jeopardy, apparently these fish blow mucus bubbles from their mouths as protection at night? Any fish experts want to confirm? 99.233.134.104 (talk) 01:00, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Jeopardy

message: Page has been vandalized, but can't simply revert. Someone please fix. Incidentally, is there a template box (or something similar) so that complex vandalizations can be reported w/o having to fix them yourself? --Thiseye (talk) 07:12, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: I wonder if someone can check this section. As far as I understand there are only two entries in the paleolntological record that date to 10 mya (see Bellwood 1994 for example). One is an extant cryptotomus like species and the other is Bolbometapon. No remains for Scarus have been validated as far as I know. The graphic that is displayed shows both Sparisoma and Scarus extending to the eocene.thx  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thescarid (talk • contribs) 19:47, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Many things have happened since the 1991 review by Bellwood & Schultz, which formed the basis for the fossil section in Bellwood 1994. First, neither Bolbometapon nor Calotomus are Oligocene and consequently the direct replacement was incorrect (they are, as described above, mid-Miocene). As far as I know, there is only one reported Oligocene parrotfish and that's the Scarus in Merle et al. 2002 (Comptes Rendus Palevol 1(2)). A few other Miocene/Quaternary species have been reported since 1991/4, but nothing Oligocene. I'm not aware of any fossil Sparisoma (not in Fossilworks either) and I've removed it from the Timeline of genera, leaving only Scarus. If someone wants to add the other fossil genera with their correct age ranges please go ahead. Timeline of genera in most wiki articles have generally been based on Fossilworks. It's a good place to start for anyone that wants to expand the section, even though FW has its issues too (not my main field of knowledge and I'll leave it to others to expand the fossils section). RN1970 (talk) 23:39, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline of genera 

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