surgeonfish in English

noun
1
a deep-bodied and typically brightly colored tropical marine fish with a scalpellike spine on each side of the tail.
Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish , wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent.

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1. Unlike that Benignly daft creature this real-life surgeonfish in Indonesia carries a sharp retractable blade of bone near the b 12

2. Most of the biomass is low on the food chain, the herbivores, the parrotfish, the surgeonfish that eat the algae.

3. Unlike that Benignly daft creature, this real-life surgeonfish in Indonesia carries a sharp retractable blade of bone near the b

4. Emsworth, Lord Making memorable appearances are an Absentminded surgeonfish, a hammerhead and a great white shark, voiced by Barry 'Edna Everage' Humphries.

5. Both in the lagoon and in the deep ocean beyond, the eye is delighted by colorful parrot fish, wrasse, surgeonfish, perch, loach merou, and red mullet.