Yellowmask Surgeonfish

Scientific Name: Acanthurus mata
Family: Surgeonfishes - Acanthuridae
Maximum Size: 50cm
Identification: Slender; pale to dark bluish body with numerous blue and dark horizontal lines, upper lip yellowish; yellow band through eye.
Favourite: Groups feed on zooplankton.
Hide-out: Inshore (often turbid) and outer reefs in 5-25m.
Location: Indo-Pacific - Red Sea and E. Africa to French Polynesia. S.W. Japan to Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia.