#2360 · 🐟 fish

Pacific Sailfin Tang

🇳🇱 Zeilvindoktersvis ·Zebrasoma velifer

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Rickard Zerpe · CC BY 4.0
2. © Rickard Zerpe · CC BY 4.0
3. © Rickard Zerpe · CC BY 4.0
4. © Mark Rosenstein · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © D. Torres-Pulliza · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Mark Rosenstein · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Tony Strazzari · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © kuroshio · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Paul Asman · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The sailfin tang ( Zebrasoma velifer ), the Pacific sailfin tang , purple sailfinned tang or sailfin surgeonfish , is a marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acanthuridae which includes the surgeonfishes, unicornfishes and tangs. This fish is found in the Pacific Ocean and is popular in the aquarium hobby.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,003iNaturalist 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.
4,003 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Marcus Elieser Bloch in 1795 (231 years ago).