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Definition of surgeonfish in English: surgeonfishnounPlural surgeonfishesˈsəːdʒ(ə)nfɪʃˈsərdʒənˌfɪʃ A deep-bodied and typically brightly coloured tropical marine fish with a scalpel-like spine on each side of the tail. Family Acanthuridae: several genera and many species. See also tang, unicorn fish Example sentencesExamples - Emperor angelfish, moorish idols, surgeonfish and sergeant-majors greeted us in the 20-25m visibility at almost every corner.
- There are busy cleaning stations along each metre of reef, some for surgeonfish, others for batfish, each seductively changing colour to attract the attention of the cleaning wrasses.
- The powder blue surgeonfish from the Indo-Pacific Ocean is an uncommon variety.
- This morphological signal also appears to persist, with the rabbitfishes, surgeonfishes (Acan - thuridae), damselfishes, and scats already occupying this space in the Eocene.
- Fish are fed in this area, so shoals of angelfish, surgeonfish, damsels and sergeant majors approach divers without fear.
- Schools of fusiliers and surgeonfish and over 400 other species of tropical fish have made it their home.
- Acanthurids, commonly known as surgeonfishes, are characterized by the existence of the ‘scalpel,’ a distinctive spine or group of spines on either side of the tail base, hence the common name surgeonfish.
- I could identify lion fish, clown fish and orangestripe surgeonfish.
- Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish, surgeonfish and butterflyfish.
- Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent.
- Adult emperor angels, coral groupers and shoals of sweepers mingle in the little overhangs, while overhead swim great shoals of pencilled surgeonfish, yellow butterfly fish and brilliantly coloured Moorish idols.
- On the morning dives we drifted in crystal currents, passing over orange gorgonians and red soft corals, and among schools of goatfish, snappers and surgeonfish.
- Blue tang surgeonfish and striped parrotfish forage in large ‘roving’ groups, feeding from the algal turf defended by damselfish (Pomacentridae).
- A shoal of surgeonfish sensibly moves out of harm's way.
- Yellow Tang and surgeonfish sometimes employ scalpel-like fins against those who grab them.
- At the same site we saw a pair of purple flame gobies, a fantastic blue-ribbon eel, clown triggerfish and a beautifully striped surgeonfish.
- The upper part is the territory of the surgeonfish which savagely protects it by attacking divers when they approach.
- Many species, such as parrotfish and surgeonfish, prospered on the algae covering that invades stricken coral reefs.
- I am lifted from my rhythmic reverie when I am ambushed by a school of surgeonfish.
- In the shallower water gather surgeonfish, triggerfish, scorpionfish, goatfish and giant clams.
Definition of surgeonfish in US English: surgeonfishnounˈsərdʒənˌfɪʃˈsərjənˌfiSH A deep-bodied and typically brightly colored tropical marine fish with a scalpel-like spine on each side of the tail. Family Acanthuridae: several genera and many species. See also tang Example sentencesExamples - I am lifted from my rhythmic reverie when I am ambushed by a school of surgeonfish.
- Blue tang surgeonfish and striped parrotfish forage in large ‘roving’ groups, feeding from the algal turf defended by damselfish (Pomacentridae).
- I could identify lion fish, clown fish and orangestripe surgeonfish.
- Adult emperor angels, coral groupers and shoals of sweepers mingle in the little overhangs, while overhead swim great shoals of pencilled surgeonfish, yellow butterfly fish and brilliantly coloured Moorish idols.
- On the morning dives we drifted in crystal currents, passing over orange gorgonians and red soft corals, and among schools of goatfish, snappers and surgeonfish.
- Schools of fusiliers and surgeonfish and over 400 other species of tropical fish have made it their home.
- A shoal of surgeonfish sensibly moves out of harm's way.
- Yellow Tang and surgeonfish sometimes employ scalpel-like fins against those who grab them.
- Acanthurids, commonly known as surgeonfishes, are characterized by the existence of the ‘scalpel,’ a distinctive spine or group of spines on either side of the tail base, hence the common name surgeonfish.
- This morphological signal also appears to persist, with the rabbitfishes, surgeonfishes (Acan - thuridae), damselfishes, and scats already occupying this space in the Eocene.
- The upper part is the territory of the surgeonfish which savagely protects it by attacking divers when they approach.
- Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent.
- Many species, such as parrotfish and surgeonfish, prospered on the algae covering that invades stricken coral reefs.
- There are busy cleaning stations along each metre of reef, some for surgeonfish, others for batfish, each seductively changing colour to attract the attention of the cleaning wrasses.
- At the same site we saw a pair of purple flame gobies, a fantastic blue-ribbon eel, clown triggerfish and a beautifully striped surgeonfish.
- The powder blue surgeonfish from the Indo-Pacific Ocean is an uncommon variety.
- Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish, surgeonfish and butterflyfish.
- In the shallower water gather surgeonfish, triggerfish, scorpionfish, goatfish and giant clams.
- Emperor angelfish, moorish idols, surgeonfish and sergeant-majors greeted us in the 20-25m visibility at almost every corner.
- Fish are fed in this area, so shoals of angelfish, surgeonfish, damsels and sergeant majors approach divers without fear.
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