Can darken or lighten colour, but typically blue body with yellow head and distinctive bar from eye to eye across the nose. Filaments on the tail.
Can darken or lighten colour, but typically blue body with yellow head and distinctive bar from eye to eye across the nose. Filaments on the tail.
Blue brown velvety body, with yellow line where fins adjoin the body broadening towards the tail. White tail with vertical yellow bar. White patch beneath the eye and white mouth.
Brown at front turning more blue to rear, with fine horizontal pencil lines. Definite concave face with eyes close to front of head, and definite snout. Small white keel.
Distinctive markings: black-edged blue lines over yellow on the upper two thirds of the body, solid pale blue below. Dark blue lunate tail with an inner crescent of paler blue.
Most easily recognised by the two keels, which are bright orange/yellow, and clown-like face. Vivid pale blue lines at base and edge of dorsal fin, orange anal fin. (Note the Mimic which looks similar doesn’t have the double keel).
Body is unmissably powder-blue, that is a bright sky blue. Dark blue face, yellow dorsal and white anal fin – this picture does not do it justice – it’s one of the most beautifully colourful fish. Often seen in small numbers in large schools of less colourful surgeons.
Body covered with fine blue/yellow pencil lines, yellowish margins and blue tail.
Brown at front turning more blue to rear, with fine horizontal pencil lines. Definite concave face with eyes close to front of head, and definite snout. Small white keel.
Distinctive markings: black-edged blue lines over yellow on the upper two thirds of the body, solid pale blue below. Dark blue lunate tail with an inner crescent of paler blue.
