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Identity card
Whitespotted surgeonfish
- Scientific name:
- Acanthurus guttatus
- Family:
- Acanthuridae
- Class:
- Actinopterygii
- Phylum:
- Chordata
- Year of description:
- Forster, 1801
- IUCN Status:
- Least Concern
- Distribution:
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Indo-Pacific: oceanic islands from the western Indian Ocean to the Hawaiian Islands, Marquesas Islands and Tuamoto Islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to New Caledonia and Rapa.
- Habitat:
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It lives in shoals at shallow depths on reef plains subject to swells or currents.
- Size:
Up to 26 cm.
- Diet:
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Filamentous algae and calcareous algae.
