[Image]Scientific Name: Acanthurus mata Family: Surgeonfishes - Acanthuridae Maximum Size: 50cm Identification: Slender; pale to dark bluish body with numerous blue and dark horizontal lines, upper lip yellowish; yellow band through eye. Favourite: Groups feed on zooplankton. Hide-out: Inshore (often turbid) and outer reefs in 5-25m. Location: Indo-Pacific - Red Sea and E. Africa to French Polynesia. S.W. Japan to Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia.
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