An ocean surgeonfish with black spot syndrome. (Photo: Cheyenna de Wit) Environmental factors Besides determining that 70% of surgeonfish showed visible signs of black spot syndrome, Johnson and de ...

Surgeonfish feed by browsing on the "turf" of algae growing on rocks and dead coral. The researchers found that surgeonfish also can move their upper jaw sideways, allowing them to bite food off a ...

Mihalitsis and Wainwright then looked at the closely related surgeonfish, a large family of fishes that are the dominant herbivores on reefs. Surgeonfish feed by browsing on the “turf” of algae ...