Labels:reckoner | tabloid OCR: Parrotfishes food source: They are not eaten widely in the Caribbean due their soft flesh that spoils rapidly, coupled with the fear of ciguatera. They are nevertheless of great importance our oceans because of their feeding habits. The large species of parrotfish eat corals for the symbiotic algae and produce as fecal matter the fine white coraline sand that makes up much of the shoreline of tropical seas Perhaps the most common par- rotfish species the stoplight, which has characteristic yellow spot at t the top of its opercular slit. mportance