Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various brightly colored tropical marine fishes of the family Acanthuridae, having a laterally compressed body with one or more sharp erectile spines near the base of the tail, and often kept in home aquariums.
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- noun Any of many brightly coloured
fishes , of the familyAcanthuridae , that have an erectspine near the tail
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- noun brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Deep-reef fish include squirrelfish, soldierfish, surgeonfish, snappers and emperors.
Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary 2008
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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 2008
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Doctorfish typically feed above the reefs and surgeonfish typically feed in sandy areas and sea grass beds adjacent to the reef.
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On new substrates, rapid grazing by ocean surgeonfish and princess parrotfish kept communities in an early successional stage dominated by short, filamentous algae and crustose coralline algae that did not suppress coral growth.
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On new substrates, rapid grazing by ocean surgeonfish and princess parrotfish kept communities in an early successional stage dominated by short, filamentous algae and crustose coralline algae that did not suppress coral growth.
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Acanthurus olivaceus - surgeonfish grazing on algae on new reef material.
WN.com - Articles related to Food & agriculture - June 9 2010
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Acanthurus olivaceus - surgeonfish grazing on algae on new reef material.
WN.com - Articles related to FiTting method to face global warming 2010
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In Year 1, we used the redband parrotfish (Sparisoma aurofrenatum) and the ocean surgeonfish (Acanthurus bahianus); in Year 2, we used the redband parrotfish and the princess parrotfish (Scarus taeniopterus).
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Acanthurus olivaceus - surgeonfish grazing on algae on new reef material.
WN.com - Articles related to Regional wage boards grant wage hike in Zambo, C. Visayas 2010
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Parrotfish, surgeonfish, northern sea urchin and other species also cause feeding damage on seaweed in Japanese waters.
EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Asahi Shimbun: none g 2010
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