| Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish, surgeonfish and butterflyfish. |
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| Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent. |
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| What struck me most were the brilliantly-coloured blue tangs, surgeonfish which don't want to be photographed, and the soft corals. |
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| The great clouds of yellow black and white banner angelfish, brilliant blue fusiliers, yellow tangs and smart surgeonfish are gone. |
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| Fish are fed in this area, so shoals of angelfish, surgeonfish, damsels and sergeant majors approach divers without fear. |
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| Emperor angelfish, moorish idols, surgeonfish and sergeant-majors greeted us in the 20-25m visibility at almost every corner. |
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| The powder blue surgeonfish from the Indo-Pacific Ocean is an uncommon variety. |
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| Schools of fusiliers and surgeonfish and over 400 other species of tropical fish have made it their home. |
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| Yellow Tang and surgeonfish sometimes employ scalpel-like fins against those who grab them. |
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| At the same site we saw a pair of purple flame gobies, a fantastic blue-ribbon eel, clown triggerfish and a beautifully striped surgeonfish. |
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| The upper part is the territory of the surgeonfish which savagely protects it by attacking divers when they approach. |
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| Many species, such as parrotfish and surgeonfish, prospered on the algae covering that invades stricken coral reefs. |
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| I am lifted from my rhythmic reverie when I am ambushed by a school of surgeonfish. |
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| In the shallower water gather surgeonfish, triggerfish, scorpionfish, goatfish and giant clams. |
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| However, it makes a good home for numerous pufferfish, porgies and sweetlips, and surgeonfish shoal in the open water nearby. |
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| I could identify lion fish, clown fish and orangestripe surgeonfish. |
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| On the morning dives we drifted in crystal currents, passing over orange gorgonians and red soft corals, and among schools of goatfish, snappers and surgeonfish. |
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| Biology of surgeonfish Acanthurus nigrofuscus with emphasis on changeover in diet and annual gonadal cycles. |
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| Making memorable appearances are an absentminded surgeonfish, a hammerhead and a great white shark, voiced by Barry 'Edna Everage' Humphries. |
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| Making appearances are an absent-minded surgeonfish, a hammerhead and a great white shark, voiced by Barry 'Dame Edna' Humphries. |
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| Big grazing fishes like parrotfish and surgeonfish have different tastes in seaweed. |
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| The study looked at fish traditionally hunted by the local people including snappers, triggerfish, parrotfish and surgeonfish. |
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| Patrols of surgeonfish, protected by razor-sharp blades protruding from their tails, idly browse the seaweed. |
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| Spotfin lionfish, palette surgeonfish, foxface rabbitfish and red firefish are sequestered in their own venomous creatures tank. |
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| The pahu is accompanied by a small knee drum, called puniu or kilu, made of a coconut shell base and covered with the skin of the kala or surgeonfish. |
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| For example, surgeonfish eat algae that parrotfish do not like. |
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