About
A powder-blue body with a black face, a white band across the throat and a yellow dorsal fin — a surgeonfish with crisp, clean-cut colors. The area around the scalpel spine at the base of the tail is yellow too, and the white tail has a black border.
It feeds mainly on algae, sometimes alone and sometimes in large groups grazing over the rocks. It can be feisty toward other surgeonfishes and may defend a territory.
In Fish Around
It rows with its pectoral fins, glides smoothly in a straight line, and every few seconds makes a quick turn — the classic surgeonfish style.
