Photo: MDC Seamarc Maldives · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 25 cm
- 🌊 reef flats and lagoons; large schools
The convict surgeonfish is cream-white striped with five black bars, like a prisoner's uniform (hence the name). It forms large schools that graze algae on the reef flat.
Did you know?
Its Tahitian name is manini, which is also found in Hawaiian.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Chirurgien bagnard.
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