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Naso unicornis (Unicornfish; Unicorn tang; Long-snouted unicornfish; Longnose unicornfish; Longhorn unicornfish; Humphead unicornfish; Brown unicornfish; Bluespine unicornfish; Blue-spine unicorn; Bluespine unicorn; Surgeonfish)

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Language: Afrikaans; Agutaynen; Bikol; Carolinian; Cebuano; Chavacano; Creole, French; Danish; Davawenyo; Fijian; French; Hawaiian; Hiligaynon; Japanese; Jawe; Kagayanen; Komoro; Korean; Kumak; Kuyunon; Mahl; Malagasy; Malay; Malayalam; Mandarin Chinese; Maranao/Samal/Tao Sug; Marshallese; Misima-Paneati; Nemi; Niuean; Numee; Other; Palauan; Pije; Portuguese; Rapa; Russian; Samoan; Somali; Spanish; Surigaonon; Swahili; Swedish; Tagalog; Tahitian; Tokelauan; Tongan; Visayan; Wallisian; Waray-waray

Wikipedia Abstract

The bluespine unicornfish or short-nose unicornfish (Naso unicornis) is a tang from the Indo-Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 70 cm in length. It is called kala in Hawaiian, and dawa in New Caledonia.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    

Predators

Caranx melampygus (black ulua)[1]

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Gibson, 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