Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 70 cm
- 🌊 lagoons, outer slopes
The bluespine unicornfish is grey-brown, with two bony spines at the base of its tail. In the adult a frontal horn develops. It feeds mainly on brown algae.
Did you know?
The « horn » of this unicornfish grows only with age: the young do not have one. In Tahitian it is called ume.
Source: Biology of the species; TAXREF
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Nason à éperon.
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