#2365 · 🐟 fish

Pacific Orange-spine Unicornfish

🇳🇱 Koekopvis ·Naso lituratus

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 outside Europe

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

Naso lituratus is a species of fish in the family Acanthuridae, the tangs and unicornfishes. Its common names include barcheek unicornfish , clown tang , masked unicornfish , naso tang , orange-spine surgeonfish , orange-spine unicornfish , Pacific orange-spine unicorn , poll unicornfish , redlip surgeonfish , lipstick tang , smooth-head unicornfish , and striped unicornfish .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,972iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
3,972 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Reinhold Forster in 1801 (225 years ago).