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{{Short description|Species of fish}}
{{Speciesbox
| image = Nasounicornis-Blauklingen.jpg
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name = iucn>{{cite iucn |author=Abesamis, R. |author2=Clements, K.D. |author3=Choat, J.H. |author4=McIlwain, J. |author5=Myers, R. |author6=Nanola, C. |author7=Rocha, L.A. |author8=Russell, B. |author9=Stockwell, B. |display-authors =3 |date=2012 |title=''Naso unicornis''
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| authority = ([[Peter Forsskål|Forsskål]], 1775)
| synonyms = {{ Specieslist
| Chaetodon unicornis | Forsskål, 1775
| Acanthurus unicornis | (Forsskål, 1775)
| Monoceros biaculeatus | [[Marcus Elieser Bloch|Bloch]] & [[Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider|Schneider]], 1801
| Monoceros rain | Bloch & Schneider, 1801
| Naso fronticornis | [[Bernard Germain de Lacépède|Lacépède]], 1801
| Harpurus monoceros | [[Johann Reinhold Forster|Forster]] in [[Hinrich Lichtenstein|Lichtenstein]], 1844
| Acronurus corniger | [[Laurens Theodorus Gronovius|Gronow]] in [[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1854
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| synonyms_ref = <ref name = CofF>{{Cof genus|genus=Naso |access-date=25 July 2023}}</ref>
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[[File:Naso unicornis New Caledonia.jpg|thumb|''Naso unicornis'' from [[New Caledonia]]]]
[[File:Bluespine unicornfish green island.jpg|thumb|A pair of bluespine unicornfish (''Naso unicornis'') found in shallow water coral reef area of Green Island, a coral reef ecosystem reserve in Taiwan]]
The '''bluespine unicornfish'''
==Taxonomy==
The bluespine unicornfish was first formally [[Species description|described]] as ''Chaetodon unicornis'' by the [[Swedish-speaking population of Finland|Swedish-speaking Finnish]] [[exploration|explorer]], [[oriental studies|orientalist]], [[natural history|naturalist]], and an [[Apostles of Linnaeus|apostle of Carl Linnaeus]] [[Peter Forsskål]] with its [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]] given as [[Jeddah]].<ref name = CofF/> In 1801 the French [[zoologist]] [[Bernard Germain de Lacépède]] described a new species ''Naso fronticornis'' as a replacement name for ''Chaetodon unicornis'', which, in 1917 David Starr Jordan designated as the [[type species]] of the [[genus]] ''[[Naso (fish)|Naso]]'', which had first been proposed as a genus by Lacépède when he described ''N. fronticornis''.<ref name = CofF2>{{Cof family|family=Acanthuridae|access-date=29 July 2023}}</ref> ''Naso'' is the only genus in the [[Monotypic taxon|monogeneric]] [[subfamily]] Nasinae, proposed by [[Henry Weed Fowler]] and [[Barton Appler Bean]] in 1929<ref name = VDLEF>{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp |year=2014 | title = Family-group names of recent fishes | url = https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue = 2 | pages = 1–230| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | doi-access = free }}</ref> within the family Acanthuridae.<ref name = Nelson5>{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=497–502 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |access-date=2023-07-29 |archive-date=2019-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Description ==
The bluespine unicornfish has a blueish-gray body with two blue spines on each side at the base of the tail and a short rostrum or bony horn on the forehead.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Bray|first=D.J.|date=2019|title=Naso unicornis in Fishes of Australia|url=https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/2201#summary|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170501124310/http://fishesofaustralia.net.au:80/home/species/2201 |archive-date=2017-05-01 }}</ref> In small fish the horn is missing and males additionally have tail streamers.<ref name=":0"/> These fish have a leather
== Distribution ==
The bluespine unicornfish is very common in the tropical [[Indo-Pacific]] region usually occurring at temperatures between
== Habitat ==
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==References==
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* {{FishBase | genus = Naso | species = unicornis| month = December| year = 2008}}
{{Commons category|Naso unicornis}}▼
==External links==
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