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Gray Unicornfish

Naso caesius

Classification

Naso caesius, the grey unicornfish or silverblotched unicornfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acanthuridae, the surgeonfishes, unicornfishes and tangs. This species occurs in the Indo-Pacific region. Taxonomy Naso caesius was first formally described in 1992 by the American ichthyologist John Ernest Randall and marine biologist Lori Jane Bell Colin with its type locality given as the northern side of the East Channel of Eniwetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 27France · 11