Sleek Unicornfish

Naso hexacanthus

White lips, black gill lid edge. Can rapidly change colour.

Size : 75 cm

Habitat : Lives in deep lagoons and outer reef slopes, 6-137 m. Common and not shy. Usually swims in groups, sometimes in large schools a short distance above the reef and hunts large plankton.

Distribution : Red Sea to SW Japan, Hawaii, Micronesia and French Polynesia and Pitcairn.

Classification

KINGDOM

:

Animalia

PHYLUM

:

Chordata

CLASS

:

Actinopterygii

ORDER

:

Acanthuriformes

FAMILY

:

Acanthuridae

GENUS

:

Naso

SPECIES

:

Naso hexacanthus

Other Information

Population Status

Least Concern (LC)

PHOTO COLLECTION

Reference

  1. inaturalist.org
  2. Reef Fishes of the Indo-Pacific. Book by Matthias Bergbauer and Manuela Kirschner