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Elegant Unicornfish

Naso elegans

Classification

Naso elegans, the elegant unicornfish, the blonde naso tang, Indian orange-spine unicorn, lipstick surgeonfish, lipstick tang, orangespine unicornfish or smoothheaded unicornfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acanthuridae, the surgeonfishes, unicornfishes and tangs. This species is found in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy Naso elegans was first formally described as Aspisurus elegans in 1829 by the German zoologist and explorer Eduard Rüppell with its type locality given as the northern Red Sea.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 513