Nose doctor fish
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Masked nose doctor fish ( Naso vlamingi ) |
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| Nasinae | ||||||||||||
| Fowler & Bean , 1929 | ||||||||||||
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| Naso | ||||||||||||
| Lacépède , 1801 |
The nose doctor fish are a subfamily of the doctor fish , which consists of only one genus of the same name . In the surgeonfish family, they are the giants. The long-nosed surgeonfish can grow up to a meter in length.
The nose doctor fish have two sharp, thorn-like horn plates at the root of the tail, with which they can defend themselves and also injure people. Typical for them is a bulge on the forehead - the "nose".
Nose doctor fish live on zooplankton , which they hunt near coral reefs . Unlike other surgeon fish species, nasal surgeon fish do not form feeding schools. They can mainly be observed individually or in small groups.
species
The species of nose doctor fish include:
Yellow-blade nose doctor ( Naso lituratus )
- Species group Brevirostris
- White-banded rhinocerosfish ( Naso annulatus )
- Long-nosed doctor fish ( Naso brevirostris )
- Blue-tailed nose doctorfish ( Naso caeruleacauda )
- Black-lipped nose doctor fish ( Naso caesius )
- Blue-bladed nose doctor fish ( Naso hexacanthus )
- Lopez nasal doctor fish ( Naso lopezi )
- Spotted nose doctor fish ( Naso maculatus )
- Small nose doctor fish ( Naso minor )
- Single-plate nose doctor fish ( Naso thynnoides )
- Masked nose doctor fish ( Naso vlamingi )
- Species group Lituratus
- Humpback surgeonfish ( Naso brachycentrodon )
- Horsehead nose doctor fish ( Naso fangeni )
- Yellow-blade nose doctor ( Naso lituratus )
- Humpback nose doctor fish ( Naso tuberosus )
- Short-nosed surgeonfish ( Naso unicornis )
literature
- André Luty: Doctor fish - way of life - care - species. Dähne, Ettlingen 1999, ISBN 3-921684-61-7
Web links
Commons : Naso - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Nose doctor fish on Fishbase.org (English)