Japanese Surgeonfish

Acanthurus japonicus, the Japan surgeonfish, white-faced surgeonfish, gold rim tang, powder brown tang and white-nose surgeonfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acanthuridae, the surgeonfishes, unicornfishes or tangs. This fish is found in the Western Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy Acanthurus japonicus was first formally described as Hepatus aliala japonicus in 1931 by the Soviet ichthyologist Peter Schmidt (zoologist) with its type locality given as Kominato on Amami-Oshima in the Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan.

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El pez cirujano japonés (Acanthurus japonicus) es un pez cirujano, de la familia de los acantúridos. Es un ágil y vistoso nadador. Defiende con agresividad su territorio en el arrecife de machos territoriales de su misma especie.