Photo: Julien Bidet · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 70 cm
- 🌊 lagoons, slopes
The yellowfin surgeonfish is a large grey-brown surgeonfish with a yellow patch below the eye and a crescent tail. It feeds on algae and detritus.
Did you know?
In Tahitian it is called paraʻi.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Chirurgien à nageoires jaunes.
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