Surgeon Fish ID

[greggnyce]

I thought this was a tomini tang when I first got it because of the white tail and orange spots on his head. But little by little these orange and blue stripes appeared. It has the same stripes on his anal and dorsal fins when extended. Here is a photo let me know what you think.

 

[Billybeau1]

Definitely a surgeon

looks like a acanthurus nigroris or a nigrofuscus to me.

 

[greggnyce]

I posted in the fish forum and someone showed my this looks just like it.
http://www.meerwasser-lexikon.de/eng/5/1302/Ctenochaetus/cyanocheilus.htm

 

[puckbs]

sweet, i've never seen one on any of the lists or in a store. but it definitely looks like a bristletooth and that picture looks a lot like him.

 

[Billybeau1]

I don't know, the bristletooths I've seen are shorter in body length.

Still looks like a Acanthurus to me.

 

[puckbs]

well i'm no tang specialist by any stretch of the imagination. how big is it?

 

[Long Island Andy]

Hi Greg

I just picked up a new book " Surgeonfishes of Hawaii and the World" by John Randall. On pages 64 and 65 there are pictures of Twospot Bristletooth(Ctenochaetus binotatus ) and Bluelipped Bristletooth (Ctenochaetus cyanocheilus). Google them, I think it may be one of them

Andy

 

[greggnyce]

It is about 3-4". I does look alot like the Ctenochaetus.