Scarus ferrugineus

Scarus ferrugineus is the scientific name of the rusty dark brown fish, a singular inhabitant of the coral reefs of the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Aden. When it is young his scales are of brown color with the yellow tail, but as it grows his tonalities change showing at the end of his life a multicolored miscellany of showy red, blue, green, yellow, ocres … it feeds fundamentally on seaweed that grow on dead coral. Sometimes also he eats coral, which it crushes and excretes in the shape of thin white sand. His mouth of fused teeth is alike the peak of the parrots.