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FISH FACTS |
Description
The Eye stripe Surgeonfish has a yellow brown to gray brown body with fine with irregular blue lines . It has a yellow spot behind the eye, and a yellow band through the eye. The dorsal and anal fins are yellow with blue edges and a blue stripe at the fin base. The tail is blue with some black spots. The Eye stripe Surgeonfish has a white spine on the tail stem.
Size
to 50cm
Habitat
offshore reefs
Range
The Eye stripe Surgeonfish is found in the Indian Ocean and Central Pacific. In Australia it is found in north-western Western Australia and from the top of the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland to central New South Wales coast.
Classification
| Class: | Actinopterygii | | Order: | Perciformes | | Family: | Acanthuridae | | Genus: | Acanthurus | | Species: | dussumieri | | Common Name: | Eyestripe Surgeonfish |
Relatives in same Genus
Dark Surgeon (A. blochii)
Striped Surgeonfish (A. lineatus)
Brown Surgeonfish (A. nigrofuscus)
Orangeband Surgeonfish (A. olivaceus)
Convict Surgeonfish (A. triostegus)
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