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This index has several hundred pictures, and it's still growing. If you have pictures to contribute which you have taken yourself, I'll happily add them to the database, and give you appropriate credit.

 

Acanthurus japonicus

Common name: white face tang


Photo by Mark Rosenstein / Active Window Productions, Inc.


Photo by Steve Jones

The white-face (Acanthurus japonicus) and Powder Brown (Acanthurus nigricans) are often confused but to quote Robert M Fenner The White-faced is "a significantly better candidate for a long life in the aquarium."

     
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