Acanthurus japonicus, the Japan surgeonfish, white-faced surgeonfish, gold rim tang, powder brown tang and white-nose surgeonfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acanthuridae, the surgeonfishes, unicornfishes or tangs. This fish is found in the Western Pacific Ocean.
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found in the Western Pacific Ocean. Acanthurusjaponicus was first formally described as Hepatus aliala japonicus in 1931 by the Soviet ichthyologist...
a species complex with three other species in the genus Acanthurus, A. achilles, A. japonicus and A. leucosernon, these three all having parapatric distributions...
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