Calotomus spinidens

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Russell, B. |author2=Choat, J.H. |author3=Clements, K.D. |author4=Rocha, L.A. |author5=Myers, R. |author6=Lazuardi, M.E. |author7=Muljadi, A. |author8=Pardede, S. |author9=Rahardjo, P. |date=2012 |title=Calotomus spinidens |volume=2012 |page=e.T190685A17799481 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T190685A17799481.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| taxon = Calotomus spinidens

| authority = (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)

| synonyms = *Scarus spinidens Quoy & Gaimard, 1824

  • Callyodon spinidens (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
  • Cryptotomus spinidens (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
  • Callyodon waigiensis Valenciennes, 1840
  • Callyodon hypselosoma Bleeker, 1855
  • Callyodon moluccensis Bleeker, 1861
  • Leptoscarus moluccensis (Bleeker, 1861)

| synonyms_ref ={{Fishbase|Calotomus|spinidens|month=December|year=2019}}

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Calotomus spinidens, the spinytooth parrotfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a parrotfish, in the family Scaridae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific from East Africa to Tonga and the Marshall Islands where it is found in seagrass and weaweedbeds located in coastal bays or deep lagoons.

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