Photo: Rickard Zerpe · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 21 cm
- 🌊 lagoons, reefs
The whitecheek surgeonfish is velvety black, with a white patch below the eye and an orange patch near the tail. It is territorial.
Did you know?
In Tahitian it is the maito aʻau or maito ʻaero ʻuoʻuo.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Chirurgien à marques jaunes.
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