Gendarme Fish

Acanthurus olivaceus Bloch & Schneider 1801

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Acanthurus olivaceus (Gendarme Fish) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family surgeonfishes. Individuals can grow to 35.0 cm.

EOL has data for 19 attributes, including:

body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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35 cm
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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Australia
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/2077456
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habitat
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/habitat
- Definition: A category or description of the habitat in which the Event occurred.
- Comment: Example: "oak savanna", "pre-cordilleran steppe"
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marine
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000569
- Definition: A habitat that is in or on a sea or ocean containing high concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids (typically >35 grams dissolved salts per litre).
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habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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reef
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000130
- Definition: A ridge of rocks, lying near the surface of the sea, which may be visible at low tide, but is usually covered by water.
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has ectoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002633
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Haliotrema leporinus Sun, Kritsky & Yang 2007
has endoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002635
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Parvipyrum acanthuri Pritchard 1963
population trend
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/population_trend
- Definition: i.e., increasing, decreasing, stable, or unknown
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Stable
Total length
- URI: http://purl.org/obo/owlATOL_0001660
- Definition: length from the tip of the snout to the tip of the longer lobe of the caudal fin, usually measured with the lobes compressed along the midline. It is a straight-line measure, not measured over the curve of the body
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35.0 cm
water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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0.7625 m
water temperature
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeawaterTemperature
- Definition: Temperature of the water at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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22.492 degrees celsius

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Gendarme Fish. View this species on GBIF

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