Family: Surgeonfishes - Acanthuridae
Maximum Size: 27cm
Identification: Dark brown changeable to pale bluish gray, white tail base; may display stripe pattern; body more slender than most surgeonfishes.
Favourite: Form groups; feed on zooplankton high above the bottom.
Hide-out: Seaward reef slopes and steep dropoffs in 4-75m.
Location: Indo-Pacific - E. Africa to Micronesia, Hawaii and French Polynesia. S.W. Japan to Australia.
Whitetail Surgeonfish
Goldtail Demoiselle
Scientific Name: Chrysiptera parasema
Family: Damselfishes - Pomacentridae
Maximum Size: 6cm
Identification: Brilliant blue head to rear body then yellow including adjacent tail and ventral fins. Similar Azure Demoiselle distinguished by yellow belly.
Favourite: Form groups.
Hide-out: Shelter within branching corals of protecter reefs to 16m.
Location: Asian Pacific - N.W. Australia, Sulawesi in Indonesia, Philippines to E. Papua New Guinea and Solomon Is.
Convict Surgeonfish
Family: Surgeonfishes - Acanthuridae
Maximum Size: 26cm
Identification: White with 5-6 black bars on head and body.
Favourite: Often feed in large groups.
Hide-out: Usually on shallow reefs to 5m.
Location: Indo-Pacific - E. Africa to Indonesia, Micronesia, Hawaii, French Polynesia and Panama. S.W. Japan to N. & E. Australia and Lord Howe I.
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