File:Acanthurus coeruleus (blue tang) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 5 (15962615858).jpg

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Acanthurus coeruleus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 - blue tang at a patch reef. (photo by Scott Bair)

Blue tangs are a type of doctorfish that range from pale blue to dark blue to black with dark blue peripheries.

The coral is Dendrogyra cylindrus (pillar coral).

Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Actinopterygii, Perciformes, Acanthuridae

Locality: patch reef offshore from San Salvador Island, eastern Bahamas
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Author James St. John

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