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The Pseudomugilidae, the blue-eyes, are a subfamily of atheriniform fish in the rainbowfish family Melanotaeniidae. [1] They inhabit fresh and brackish water in Australia, New Guinea and nearby smaller islands. [2] Blue-eyes are small fish, typically no more than 5 cm (2.0 in) in length.
Ctenochaetus strigosus, the kole tang, spotted bristletooth, spotted surgeonfish, goldring bristletooth, goldring surgeonfish, yelloweye tang or yellow-eyed surgeonfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to family Acanthuridae which includes the surgeonfishes, unicornfishes and tangs. This fish is endemic to Hawaii.
The Pacific blue-eye generally reaches a total length of around 3–3.5 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 8 – 1 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) long; males can reach 8.8 cm (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) and females 6.3 cm (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in). [4] The size of Pacific blue-eyes found north of the Burdekin Gap increases directly with distance from the gap, males and females being the same size.
The spotted blue-eye has an elongated body generally up to 2.5 cm (1 in), or rarely 3 cm (1.2 in) in length. The overall colour is transparent to pale silver-white, sometimes with tints of tan or yellow. The rear half of the body is marked with three horizontal black lines, breaking up into spots anteriorly.
Commercial fish. Blue-barred parrotfish (Cateau) Body of female is orange-yellow with bluish vertical patterns on the side. Body of male is green on dorsal side; pale-blue stripes are present on the ventral side and there is a pink salmon shade on each scale. The fish is equipped with a parrot-like beaked shaped mouth to scrape algae from corals.
Fish that live in Bikini Bottom and other cities in the sea. Blinky: Mutant Fish The Simpsons: A three-eyed fish. Bruce Great white shark: Finding Nemo: Leader of a group of sharks that wants to give up eating fish. Bubbles Bass: PB&J Otter: Charlie Tuna StarKist brand tuna commercials Charlie the Tuna is the cartoon mascot and spokes-tuna for ...
These fish are adapted for an active life under low light conditions. Most of them are visual predators with large eyes. Some of the deeper water fish have tubular eyes with big lenses and only rod cells that look upwards. These give binocular vision and great sensitivity to small light signals. [37]
Chrysiptera parasema is a popular fish in the saltwater aquarium hobby. Because of its usually low price it is often recommended as a way for novice marine aquarium keepers to gain experience. [4] Though these hardy fish are sometimes used to cycle a tank, aquariums discourage against this practice, encouraging the use of live rock instead. [5]