Squarenose Unicornfish, Naso mcdadei Johnson 2002

Squarenose Unicornfish, Naso mcdadei, on the front slope of the far northern outer Great Barrier Reef, Torres Strait, Queensland, November 2017, depth 30 m. Source: Tony Ayling / iNaturalist.org. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial

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Squarenose Unicornfish, Naso mcdadei Johnson 2002

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Distribution	North of Dampier Archipelago, WA, east of Ashmore Reef, Timor Sea, and off Cape Grenville to off Stradbroke Island, QLD. Elsewhere the species is widespread in deeper waters of the tropical, Indo-west Pacific, from East Africa to the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, to southern Taiwan. Inhabits steep rocky or coral drop-offs and deeper non-reef areas.
Species Citation	Naso mcdadei Johnson, 2002, Aust. J. Zool. 50: 295, figs 1-4. Type locality: Flat Rock off Stradbroke Island, QLD [27°23'S, 153°33'E].
Author	Dianne J. Bray

Squarenose Unicornfish, Naso mcdadei Johnson 2002

References

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