Talk:Zebrasoma scopas

A fact from Zebrasoma scopas appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 March 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the blackbelly triggerfish, the whitespotted surgeonfish, the brown tang, the yellowface angelfish and the semicircle angelfish (pictured) are native to the Indo-Pacific but have all been observed off the coast of Florida?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rhinecanthus verrucosus, Acanthurus guttatus, Zebrasoma scopas, Pomacanthus xanthometopon, Pomacanthus semicirculatus.

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In the biology section it says that Zebrasoma scopas "Feeds mainly on filamentous algae. For this purpose it has specialized pharyngeal teeth." I'm skeptical of this since I've never heard of Zebrasoma scopas or a surgeonfish in general possessing pharyngeal teeth; I've read that surgeonfish have a single row of comb like teeth which sounds like it'd be better suited to grazing on filamentous algae than pharyngeal teeth. Perhaps I am wrong, and perhaps the person who added this fact is more familiar with the anatomy of this fish than I am, and if this is the case than I'm glad to have learned something new about my favorite fish. Zebrasoma Damiensi (talk) 00:11, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Zebrasoma Damiensi The source, Fishbase, says that they do and Fishbase got that from this paper Guiasu, Radu & Winterbottom, Richard. (1998). Yellow Juvenile Color Pattern, Diet Switching and the Phylogeny of the Surgeonfish Genus Zebrasoma (Percomorpha, Acanthuridae). Bulletin of Marine Science. 63. 277-294. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233668150_Yellow_Juvenile_Color_Pattern_Diet_Switching_and_the_Phylogeny_of_the_Surgeonfish_Genus_Zebrasoma_Percomorpha_Acanthuridae/citation/download

Quetzal1964 (talk) 13:44, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]