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Categories: Marine fish families, Acanthuridae, Articles with short description, Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte

surgeonfish

Brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail WordNet 3.0

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Brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Any of many species of reef-dwelling fishes, most of them brightly coloured, of the family Acanthuridae. They are named "surgeonfish" because they bear erectile, scalpel-like, dangerously sharp spines on either side of the caudal peduncle. Wiktionary

Any of many brightly coloured fishes, of the family Acanthuridae. Wiktionary (translation)

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