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Moorish idol
(Moor|ish idol)
noun
a disc-shaped fish with bold vertical black-and-white bands and a very tall tapering dorsal fin, of coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific region.
Also called
toby
.
Zanclus cornutus
, family
Acanthuridae
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