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rabbitfish
noun
Any of the species of fish in taxonomic family Siganidae, divided into the genera and , found in shallow lagoons in the Indo-Pacific and eastern Mediterranean, diurnal, and feeding on algae in the wild.
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Rabbitfish from the Red Sea devour Mediterranean algae that would otherwise feed native fish.
And in the east, rabbitfish are eating most of the algae that native species rely on.
The most dangerous creatures in the tank are not the sharks – they would most likely be frightened of you – but the fantastically named foxface rabbitfish, a pretty little thing with yellow and black marking that has spines on its back that release a venom the equivalent of a very nasty bee sting.
The area was then rapidly colonised by turf-forming seaweeds and bottom-grazing tropical herbivores, such as rabbitfish and parrotfish, which stopped the kelp from regrowing.
And why does a fox-faced rabbitfish cost $41.99?
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