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Eastern sailfin tang
Zebrasoma veliferum
Distribution: Indonesia Hawaiian Islands Tuamotu Islands, north of the southern part of Japan, south of the Great Barrier Reef, New Caledonia, through Micronesia. Description: It draws its uniqueness of her dress: stripes, more or less fine, and small dots forming rare patterns in reef fish. He is sociable except to its congeners and other Zebrasoma (flavescens desjardini, xanthurum ...). During their life expectancy is 8 to 15 years, females grow larger than males. Housing: Occurs in lagoons and reefs turned seaward from the lower area swell to at least 30 meters deep. Food: Vegetarian, it absolutely devours everything vegetable, but also of "cherry picking" in corals. Seen in Red Sea eating a jellyfish (NDR). |
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