Orange-spot surgeonfish
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Orange-spot surgeonfish ( Acanthurus olivaceus ) |
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The Acanthurus olivaceus ( Acanthurus olivaceus ) is a kind from the family of surgeonfish (Acanthuridae) and belongs in this subfamily of acanthurinae (Acanthurinae) to.
distribution
They live in the eastern Indian Ocean and the Pacific , from Japan to the Marquesas and from Micronesia to Hawaii up to a depth of 45 meters, always over scree and sandy bottom and in the vicinity of rocky and coral reefs. In the western Indian Ocean it is being replaced by the closely related circular thorn surgeonfish ( Acanturhus tennenti ).
Appearance
The orange-spotted surgeonfish undergoes amazing color changes over the course of its life. Young animals up to six centimeters are pure yellow, they do not yet have an orange spot. With a length of twelve centimeters they are olive, the rear half is a little darker, the orange spot is pronounced. In the Pacific, adults over 25 centimeters in length turn dark olive-brown. Orange-spot surgeonfish grow to be up to 30 centimeters long.
behavior
The orange-spotted surgeonfish lives individually, in pairs or in large schools, sometimes together with other surgeonfish.
literature
- André Luty: Doctor fish - way of life - care - species. Dähne Verlag, Ettlingen 1999, ISBN 3-921684-61-7
- Hans A. Baensch / Helmut Debelius : Mergus Sea Water Atlas Volume 1. Mergus-Verlag, Melle, ISBN 3-88244-110-0
Web links
- Acanthurus olivaceus on Fishbase.org (English)
- Acanthurus olivaceus onthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Russell, B., McIlwain, J., Choat, JH, Abesamis, R., Clements, KD, Myers, R., Nanola, C., Rocha, LA & Stockwell, B., 2010 . February 2014.