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Home > Fishes
> Surgeonfishes > Acanthurus
triostegus
Updated 3/19/2024
Family
Acanthuridae
INDO-WEST PACIFIC / HAWAII
TROPICAL EASTERN
PACIFIC
Acanthurus triostegus
Juvenile, Puako, Hawaii, 25 feet |
Puako, Hawaii, 25 feet |
Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 4 feet |
Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 10 feet |
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Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 4 feet
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Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 20 feet
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Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 6 feet |
Cabo Pulmo, Baja California, Mexico Two dots below pectoral fin |
Taveuni, Fiji, 10 feet One dot below pectoral fin
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Moku o Loe, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, 2 feet
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Night, Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 4 feet |
Night, Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 4 feet
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Night, Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 4 feet
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Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 25 feet |
Old, Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 25 feet
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Spawning Color, Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 25 feet
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Juvenile, Makua, Oahu, 10 feet
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Night, Kapoho, Hawaii, 3 feet |
Sharks Cove, Oahu, 15 feet
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Makaha, Oahu, 25 feet |
Waimea Bay, Oahu, 25 feet
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Waimea Bay, Oahu, 25 feet
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Juvenile, Waimea Bay, Oahu, 25 feet |
Ahihi Bay, Maui, 4 feet |
Kewalo, Oahu, 50 feet |
Juvenile, Haleiwa Trench, Oahu, 4 feet
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Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 4 feet |
Hanauma Bay, Oahu,
20 feet
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Sharks Cove, Oahu, 15 feet
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Kaiona, Waimanalo, Oahu, 5 feet |
Kaiona, Waimanalo, Oahu, 5 feet
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Kuata, Fiji, 8 feet
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CONVICT TANG
manini Shima-hagi
Commonly seen on shallow reefs forming large feeding aggregations mixed with other species.
Young are common in tidepools during summer. Hawaiian fish have
a continuous sickle-shaped black bar below the pectoral fins. Attains 11 inches.
Red Sea to Okinawa, Hawai'i, French Polynesia, and Tropical Eastern
Pacific. The Hawaiian population was once referred to as Acanthurus
sandvicensis since the black mark below the pectoral fin is a
diagonal bar rather than a series of dots. Other locations
throughout its range have their own unique pattern. Mexican
fish have two dots at the base of the pectoral fin, South Pacific
one dot. |
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