How To Use Surgeonfish In A Sentence
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Disk and oval-shaped fishes: butterflyfishes, angelfishes, and surgeonfishes 2.
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Other important components of the fringing reef ecosystem include algae (brown, red and green), marine invertebrates (shrimp, lobster, crabs and sea urchins) and fishes (parrotfish, wrasses, damselfish, surgeonfish, goatfish, jacks and sharks).
Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
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Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent.
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Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish, surgeonfish and butterflyfish.
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The loss of algae-eating fish, such as parrotfish and surgeonfish, is worrying, says Paddack, because they help the reefs thrive by clearing away algae.
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The upper part is the territory of the surgeonfish which savagely protects it by attacking divers when they approach.
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Surgeonfishes and parrotfishes remove coral polyps to get the algae or invertebrates that have bored into the coral skeleton.
Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
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At the same site we saw a pair of purple flame gobies, a fantastic blue-ribbon eel, clown triggerfish and a beautifully striped surgeonfish.
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I could identify lion fish, clown fish and orangestripe surgeonfish.
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Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent.
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However, it makes a good home for numerous pufferfish, porgies and sweetlips, and surgeonfish shoal in the open water nearby.
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Many species, such as parrotfish and surgeonfish, prospered on the algae covering that invades stricken coral reefs.
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Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish, surgeonfish and butterflyfish.
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Plaette tangs are also known as surgeonfish because they use a sharp spike on their tail for defense. Ouch!
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A shoal of surgeonfish sensibly moves out of harm's way.
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The powder blue surgeonfish from the Indo-Pacific Ocean is an uncommon variety.
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In the shallower water gather surgeonfish, triggerfish, scorpionfish, goatfish and giant clams.
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Fish are fed in this area, so shoals of angelfish, surgeonfish, damsels and sergeant majors approach divers without fear.
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Deep-reef fish include squirrelfish, soldierfish, surgeonfish, snappers and emperors.
Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
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Acanthurids, commonly known as surgeonfishes, are characterized by the existence of the ‘scalpel,’ a distinctive spine or group of spines on either side of the tail base, hence the common name surgeonfish.
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What struck me most were the brilliantly-coloured blue tangs, surgeonfish which don't want to be photographed, and the soft corals.
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Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish, surgeonfish and butterflyfish.
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The great clouds of yellow black and white banner angelfish, brilliant blue fusiliers, yellow tangs and smart surgeonfish are gone.
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Identify surgeonfish with tips from a scuba instructor in this free video about coral reef animals.
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Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish, surgeonfish and butterflyfish.
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Yellow Tang and surgeonfish sometimes employ scalpel-like fins against those who grab them.
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Schools of fusiliers and surgeonfish and over 400 other species of tropical fish have made it their home.
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In the shallower water gather surgeonfish, triggerfish, scorpionfish, goatfish and giant clams.
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Adult emperor angels, coral groupers and shoals of sweepers mingle in the little overhangs, while overhead swim great shoals of pencilled surgeonfish, yellow butterfly fish and brilliantly coloured Moorish idols.
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However, it makes a good home for numerous pufferfish, porgies and sweetlips, and surgeonfish shoal in the open water nearby.
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Nomadic herbivores such as parrotfishes (Family Scaridae), surgeonfishes (Family Acanthuridae), and chubs (Kyphosus sp.) may forage across wide areas of the reef.
Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
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On the morning dives we drifted in crystal currents, passing over orange gorgonians and red soft corals, and among schools of goatfish, snappers and surgeonfish.
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Nomadic herbivores such as parrotfishes (Family Scaridae), surgeonfishes (Family Acanthuridae), and chubs (Kyphosus sp.) may forage across wide areas of the reef.
Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
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This morphological signal also appears to persist, with the rabbitfishes, surgeonfishes (Acan - thuridae), damselfishes, and scats already occupying this space in the Eocene.
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There are busy cleaning stations along each metre of reef, some for surgeonfish, others for batfish, each seductively changing colour to attract the attention of the cleaning wrasses.
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I am lifted from my rhythmic reverie when I am ambushed by a school of surgeonfish.
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There are busy cleaning stations along each metre of reef, some for surgeonfish, others for batfish, each seductively changing colour to attract the attention of the cleaning wrasses.
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Disk and oval-shaped fishes: butterflyfishes, angelfishes, and surgeonfishes 2.
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Blue tang surgeonfish and striped parrotfish forage in large ‘roving’ groups, feeding from the algal turf defended by damselfish (Pomacentridae).
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Emperor angelfish, moorish idols, surgeonfish and sergeant-majors greeted us in the 20-25m visibility at almost every corner.
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A shoal of surgeonfish sensibly moves out of harm's way.
