Calotomus viridescens

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| image = Viridescent Parrotfish - Calotomus viridescens.jpg

| 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=Muljadi, A. |author7=Lazuardi, M.E. |author8=Pardede, S. |author9=Rahardjo, P. |date=2012 |title=Calotomus viridescens |volume=2012 |page=e.T190689A17793547 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T190689A17793547.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| taxon = Calotomus viridescens

| authority = (Rüppell, 1835)

| synonyms = *Scarus viridescens Rüppell, 1835

• Callyodon viridescens (Rüppell, 1835)

| synonyms_ref ={{FishBase|Calotomus|viridescens|month=December|year=2019}}

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Calotomus viridescens, commonly known as the viridescent- or dotted parrotfish, is a species of parrotfish native to the waters of the Maldives and Red Sea, from the Gulf of Aqaba to south to the Chagos Archipelago. It was described by the German naturalist Eduard Rüppell in 1835.