Photo: Don Loarie · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 35 cm
- 🌊 sandy slopes, lagoons
The orangeband surgeonfish is brown, with a large orange patch behind the eye, like a gendarme's stripe (hence its French name, « poisson gendarme »). It feeds on algae.
Did you know?
In Tahitian it is known as havari.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Poisson gendarme.
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