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[[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''' ('''''Naso unicornis'''''), also known as the '''short-nose unicornfish''', is a species of marine [[ray-finned fish]] belonging to the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Acanthuridae]], the surgeonfishes, unicornfishes and tangs. This species is found in the [[Indo-Pacific]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Hoover|first=John P.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/243960518|title=The ultimate guide to Hawaiian reef fishes sea turtles, dolphins, whales, and seals|date=2008|publisher=Mutual Pub|others=John P. Hoover|isbn=978-1-56647-887-8|location=Honolulu|oclc=243960518}}</ref> It is occasionally found in the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 70 cm in length. It is called ''kala'' (
==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 ==
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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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