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This is one of the more dramatic and unusual-looking fish species. They are a medium gray with black speckles throughout and a vivid, neon yellow tail. They lik...
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This is one of the more dramatic and unusual-looking fish species. They are a medium gray with black speckles throughout and a vivid, neon yellow tail. They like to school along rocky reefs.
Prionurus punctatus was first formally described in 1862 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with its type locality given as Cape San Lucas in Baja California Sur. The genus Prionurus is the only genus in the tribe Prionurini which is one of three tribes in the subfamily Acanthurinae which is one of two subfamiles in the family Acanthuridae.
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Prionurus punctatus was first formally described in 1862 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with its type locality given as Cape San Lucas in Baja California Sur. The genus Prionurus is the only genus in the tribe Prionurini which is one of three tribes in the subfamily Acanthurinae which is one of two subfamiles in the family Acanthuridae.
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