black surgeonfish

 About "black surgeonfish"

📍Kingdom:- Animalia

📍Phylum:- Chordata

📍Class:- Actinopterygii

📍Order:- Perciformes

📍Family:- Acanthuridae

📍Genus:- Ctenochaetus

📍Species:- C. hawaiiensis

📍Binomial name:-

Ctenochaetus hawaiiensis

👉Ctenochaetus hawaiiensis (commonly known as chevron tang, but also known as black surgeonfish, Hawaiian bristletooth, Hawaiian kole or Hawaiian surgeonfish) are a species of reef surgeonfish in the family Acanthuridae.

👉They were first described by ichthyologist John Ernest Randall in 1955.

👉Ctenochaetus hawaiiensis grow to a maximum length of around 16 cm (6.3 in).

👉As juveniles, these fish are dark orange in color, with blue chevron marks on their sides.

👉These marks are where this fish receives its name.

👉As the fish ages, it turns black in color with blue horizontal stripes.

👉The mouth on this fish is typically puckered, and they have a row of 30 teeth.

👉Like all surgeonfish, C. hawaiiensis have a sharp spines on each side of their caudal peduncle that they use for defense.

👉The spines are relatively small when compared to other surgeonfish.

👉Ctenochaetus hawaiiensis are found throughout parts of the Central Pacific Ocean, namely the Hawaiian Islands.

👉 They have been seen as far west as Micronesia.

📷:- https://reefguide.org/ctenochaetushawaiiensis.html

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