World Species : Naso lituratus (striped-face unicornfish; Striped-faced unicornfish; Striped unicornfish; Smooth-head unicornfish; Redlip surgeonfish; Poll unicornfish; Pacific orange-spine unicorn; Orange-spine unicornfish; Orangespine unicornfish; Orange spine surgeonfish; Naso trang; Masked unicornfish; Clown tang; Barcheek unicornfish; Unicornfish; Surgeonfish; Stripe-face unicornfish; Smooth headed unicornfish; Poll headed unicornfish)

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Naso lituratus (striped-face unicornfish; Striped-faced unicornfish; Striped unicornfish; Smooth-head unicornfish; Redlip surgeonfish; Poll unicornfish; Pacific orange-spine unicorn; Orange-spine unicornfish; Orangespine unicornfish; Orange spine surgeonfish; Naso trang; Masked unicornfish; Clown tang; Barcheek unicornfish; Unicornfish; Surgeonfish; Stripe-face unicornfish; Smooth headed unicornfish; Poll headed unicornfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Naso lituratus is a species of fish in the family Acanthuridae, the tangs and unicornfishes. Its common names include barcheek unicornfish, clown tang, masked unicornfish, naso tang, orange-spine surgeonfish, orange-spine unicornfish, Pacific orange-spine unicorn, poll unicornfish, redlip surgeonfish, smooth-head unicornfish, and striped unicornfish. It can be found on coral reefs, often in pairs.

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Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Christmas Island National Park	II	21698	Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park	II	6469	Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Ranong			Thailand

Consumers

Parasitized by
Hapladena tanyorchis	^[1]
Monolecithotrema kala	^[1]
Parawardula elongata	^[1]
Preptetos caballeroi	^[1]
Preptetos xesuri	^[1]

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Citations

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♦ ¹Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0