Image: The oldest fish in the Australian Museum Collection
Description
The oldest fish in the Australian Museum Collection, a dried Orangeband Surgeonfish, Acanthurus olivaceus, collected in 1858 in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu). Registration Number AMS IB. 6315.
- Rights:
- © Australian Museum
- Common name:
- Orangeband Surgeonfish
- Scientific name:
- Acanthurus olivaceus
- Family:
- Acanthuridae
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