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
Cite this page as:
Dianne J. Bray, Naso mcdadei in Fishes of Australia, accessed 13 Feb 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/1041
Squarenose Unicornfish, Naso mcdadei Johnson 2002
More Info
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
Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp.
Choat, J.H., Abesamis, R., Clements, K.D., McIlwain, J., Myers, R., Nanola, C., Rocha, L.A., Russell, B. & Stockwell, B. 2012. Naso mcdadei. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015.2.
Klanten, S.O., van Herwerden, L., Choat, J.H. & Blair, D. 2004. Patterns of lineage diversification in the genus Naso (Acanthuridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32: 221-235.