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Orange band Surgeonfish

Acanthurus olivaceus

Classification

Acanthurus olivaceus, the orange-band surgeonfish, orange-shoulder surgeonfish or orangebar tang, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Acanthuridae, the surgeonfishes, unicornfishes and tangs. It lives in the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific. Taxonomy Acanthurus olivaceus was first formally described in 1801 by the German naturalists Marcus Elieser Bloch and Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider with its type locality given as Tahiti in the Society Islands.

Distribution

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