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surgeonfish::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | percoid fish, percoidean, percoid |
| Has types | doctor-fish, doctorfish, acanthurus chirurgus |
Examples of surgeonfish
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You'll routinely see butterflyfish, surgeonfish, tangs, rainbow wrasses.
From the ocregister.com
They then placed the surgeonfish into tanks with a model cleaner fish.
From the newscientist.com
There are dozens more, including tropical Indo-Pacific angelfish, butterflyfish and surgeonfish.
From the scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com
They expected well-known herbivorous fish, such as parrotfish and surgeonfish, to eat up the seaweed.
From the newscientist.com
To test this, they studied two groups of eight surgeonfish.
From the newscientist.com
Researchers found commercially important species, such as surgeonfish, can take a quarter of a century to recover.
From the upi.com
We are catching the smaller prey fish from the reef, including a few species of damselfish, surgeonfish and anthias.
From the scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com
A radioactive surgeonfish makes its own x-ray.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Juveniles may also be larger than adults and are called Atlantic yellow tang surgeonfish until they become adults.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail
- Acanthuridae ("thorn tail") is the family of surgeonfishes, tangs, and unicornfishes. The family includes about 80 species in six genera, all of which are marine fish living in tropical seas, usually around coral reefs. Many of the species are brightly colored and popular for aquaria.
- Any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae, that have an erect spine near the tail
- A group of brightly colored, oval-shaped coral reef fish that includes tangs; named after the small, sharp scalpel-like projection just ahead of its tail
- The Tang or Surgeonfish is common name for a saltwater fish species. They are nick named surgeonfish because of the scalpel like growths (blade like) at the base of the caudal peduncle which they use for aggression and defense.
