🦋 Family

Acanthuridae

51 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › › Perciformes › Acanthuridae

Prionurus microlepidotus is a surgeonfish endemic to Australian waters that grazes on benthic algae and can change body color.

Prionurus scalprum is a marine ray-finned surgeonfish species found in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

Paracanthurus hepatus, the regal blue tang, is a Indo-Pacific reef fish that supports coral health by eating overgrowing algae.

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Labridae 155 species Pomacentridae 142 species Gobiidae 120 species Serranidae 103 species Blenniidae 86 species Chaetodontidae 82 species Percidae 67 species Carangidae 53 species

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