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 ca...