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Sleek Unicornfish
Naso hexacanthus
Naso hexacanthus is a tropical fish found in coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is commonly known as the sleek unicornfish, sleek unicorn, blacktongue unicorn, blacktounge unicornfish, Thorpe's unicornfish, or the Nohorn unicorn. It is of value in commercial fisheries and as a gamefish, and is also seen in aquaria.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 121458.