Eyestripe surgeonfish
Amazing fact
The eyestripe surgeonfish has a white spine at the base of its tail that it can raise.
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The eyestripe surgeonfish has a white spine at the base of its tail that it can raise.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Eyestripe surgeonfish
- Scientific name
- Acanthurus dussumieri
- Japanese name
- ニセカンランハギ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Acanthuridae
- Genus
- Acanthurus
It can be recognized by the yellow around its eyes and along the edge of its dorsal fin.
Every year, it turns up along the Pacific coast of southern Japan in certain seasons.
It lives across a wide area, from the southern islands of Japan through the Indian Ocean and western Pacific to the Hawaiian Islands.
How the Eyestripe surgeonfish lives
It lives on sand, gravel and rocky areas near shallow coral patches. It often swims in mixed groups with fish such as scalpel sawtails and manybar goatfish. In summer, young fish can also be seen in tide pools.
宇久井ビジターセンターBasic data
- Range
- Hachijo Island, Ogasawara Islands, Iwo Jima, Okinotorishima, and elsewhere
Where the Eyestripe surgeonfish has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ニセカンランハギ
- 简体中文
- 杜氏刺尾鱼
- 繁體中文
- 杜氏刺尾鯛
- 한국어
- 노랑꼬리쥐돔
- Español
- Cirujano coronado
- Français
- Picot Kanak
- Deutsch
- Augenstreifen-Doktorfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Cirurgião-de-Dussumier
- Italiano
- Pesce chirurgo di Dussumier
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Botana sirip kuning
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ニセカンランハギChecked: 2026-11-04
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — ニセカンランハギChecked: 2026-11-07
- Australian Museum — Eyestripe Surgeonfish, Acanthurus dussumieri (Valenciennes, 1835)Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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