#surgeonfish is a name for a group of fish that have scalpel shaped bones at the base of their tail

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This fish has committed medical malpractice. Source:

#found this guy because i was reading a grammar of papapana #and the word for this fish in the language #“oini'a” #doesn't belong to the gender that nearly all the other fish do for some reason #seeing the english name caught me offguard #the reason it's called that in english is #surgeonfish is a name for a group of fish that have scalpel shaped bones at the base of their tail #and convict is i assume the black stripes on white