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Blue tangs reach sexual maturity at 9-12 months of age and lengths of 11-13 cm.
Blue tangs primarily rely on marine algal species for sustenance. Algal resources available within the tang's habitat are often objects of high competition.
Blue tangs are very common in the Caribbean, but are seldom seen in the aquarium trade.
A Blue Tang in Sydney Harbour
A Blue Trevally at Osprey Reef
A Blue Whiptail at North Solitary Island
A Bluebarred Parrotfish at Shiprock
A Blue-eye Trevalla caught off Balina
A Blueface Angelfish at Hideaway Island, Vanuatu ...
Water FunFISH-SEAWATER: Banggai Cardinalfish, Bay Pipefish, Batfish (Platax pinnatus), Bay Pipefish, Bird Wrasse, Black And Yellow Rockfish, Blackcap Basslet, Blacksmith, Blue Faced Angelfish, Blue Tang, Boccacio, Bonefish, Boxfish, ...
Blue tang surgeonfish, Acanthurus coeruleus Bloch & Schneider, 1801.
Eyestripe surgeonfish, Acanthurus dussumieri Valenciennes, 1835.
Fowler's surgeonfish, Acanthurus fowleri de Beaufort, 1951.
Black surgeonfish, Acanthurus gahhm (Forsskål, 1775).
Along the way he hooks up with a scatterbrained blue tang fish named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), who's both helpful and a hindrance, sometimes at the same time.
(20-cm) blue tang, and the larger and more abundant ocean tang of deep waters. The butterfly fishes are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Osteichthyes, order Perciformes, family Chaetodontidae.
 See also: Tang, Purple, Pipefish, Angelfish, Parrot
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