Edit the description's bibliography (Lizard Island Field Guide)

References that assist with identification

  • Bellwood, D.R. and J.H. Choat (1989). A description of the juvenile phase colour patterns of 24 parrotfish species (Family Scaridae) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Records of the Australian Museum, 41: 1-41. LIRS catalog number 264.

Other references

  • Bellwood, D.R. (1985). The functional morphology, systematics and behavioural ecology of parrotfishes (Family Scaridae), Ph.D. thesis, James Cook University, Townsville. LIRS catalog number 310.
  • Bellwood, D.R. (1994). A phylogenetic study of the parrotfish family Scaridae (Pisces: Labroidei), with a revision of genera, Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 20: 1-86. LIRS catalog number 404.
  • Bellwood, D.R. and J.H. Choat (1990). A functional analysis of grazing in parrotfishes (family Scaridae): the ecological implications, Environmental Biology of Fishes, 28: 189-214. LIRS catalog number 305.
  • Bellwood, D.R., A.S. Hoey and T.P Hughes (2012). Human activity selectively impacts the ecosystem role of parrotfishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 279: 1621-1629. LIRS catalog number 1526.
  • Bellwood, D.R. and J.H. Choat (2011). Dangerous demographics: the lack of juvenile humphead parrotfishes Bolbometopon muricatum on the Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs, 30: 549-554. LIRS catalog number 1474.
  • Bonaldo, R.M. (2011). The ecosystem role of parrotfishes on coral reefs, PhD thesis, James Cook University. LIRS catalog number 1412.
  • Brandl, S.J. and D.R. Bellwood (2013). Morphology, sociality, and ecology: can morphology predict pairing behavior in coral reef fishes? Coral Reefs, 32: 835-836. LIRS catalog number 1718.
  • Choat, J.H. and D.R. Bellwood (1985). Interactions amongst herbivorous fishes on a coral reef: influence of spatial variation, Marine Biology, 89: 221-234. LIRS catalog number 213.
  • Choat, J.H., K.D. Clements and W.D. Robbins (2002). The tropic status of herbivorous fishes on coral reefs. 1. Dietary analyses, Marine Biology, 140: 613-623. LIRS catalog number 729.
  • Choat, J.H., O.S. Klanten, L. Van Herwerden, D.R. Robertson and K.D. Clements (2012). Patterns and processes in the evolutionary history of parrotfishes (Family Labridae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 107: 529-557. LIRS catalog number 1559.
  • Choat, J.H. and J.E. Randall (1985). A review of the parrotfishes (family Scaridae) of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia with description of a new species, Records of the Australian Museum, 38(4): 175-239. LIRS catalog number 211.
  • Choat, J.H. and D.R. Robertson (2002). Chapter 3: Age-based studies on coral reef fishes in: Coral Reef Fishes. Sale, P. (Ed.). Academic Press. LIRS catalog number 1095.
  • Dudgeon, C.L., N. Gust and D. Blair (2000). No apparent genetic basis to demographic differences in scarid fishes across continental shelf of the Great Barrier Reef, Marine Biology, 137: 1059-1066. LIRS catalog number 891.
  • Green, A.L. (1992). Damselfish territories: focal sites for studies of the early life history of labroid fishes, "Proceedings of the Seventh International Coral Reef Symposium, Guam".1, : 601-605. LIRS catalog number 384.
  • Gust, N. (2000). Multi-scale variability in the demographics and life histories of scarid fishes on the northern Great Barrier Reef, Ph.D. thesis, James Cook University, Townsville. LIRS catalog number 640.
  • Gust, N. (2002). Scarid biomass on the northern Great Barrier Reef: the influence of exposure, depth and substrata, Environmental Biology of Fishes, 64: 353-366. LIRS catalog number 821.
  • Gust, N. (2004). Variation in the population biology of protogynous coral reef fishes over tens of kilometres, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 61: 205-218. LIRS catalog number 892.
  • Hoey, A.S. and D.R. Bellwood (2008). Cross-shelf variation in the role of parrotfishes on the Great Barrier Reef, Coral Reefs, 27: 37-47. LIRS catalog number 1046.
  • Nash, K.L., N.A.J. Graham and D.R. Bellwood (2013). Fish foraging patterns, vulnerability to fishing, and implications for the management of ecosystem function across scales. Ecological Applications, 23: 1632-1644. LIRS catalog number 1734.
  • Richardson, L.E., N.A.J. Graham, M.S. Pratchett, J.G. Eurich and A.S. Hoey (2018). Mass coral bleaching causes biotic homogeniszation of reef fish assemblages. Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/gcb.14119. LIRS catalog number 2200.
  • Smith, L.L., J.L. Fessler, M.E. Alfaro, J.T. Streelman and M.W. Westneat (2008). Phylogenetic relationships and the evolution of regulatory gene sequences in the parrotfishes, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 49: 136-152. LIRS catalog number 1209.
  • Trapon, M.L. (2013). Variation in early post-settlement growth and mortality of scleractinian corals, PhD thesis, James Cook University. LIRS catalog number 2138.