surgeonfishes 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. These include popular aquarium fish groups such as the tangs and surgeonfishes, butterflyfishes, wrasses, hawkfishes, and all marine Angelfishes
2. Jacks 0.05 Grunts 0.05 Mullets 0.05 Rabbitfishes 0.05 Needlefishes 1.1 Porcupinefishes 1.1 Sharks and Rays 1.1 Squirrelfishes 1.1 Sea Breams 1.1 Sharks 1.6 Boxfishes 1.6 Rays 1.6 Scorpionfishes 1.6 Surgeonfishes 2.7 Goatfishes 2.7 Moray Eels 2.7 Leatherjackets 3.8 Snappers 4.9 Unidentified 7.1 Wrasses 7.7 Emperors 7.7 Sea Basses 11.5 Parrotfishes 35.2 Note: Table made from bar graph.