Naso minor

Naso minor was first formally described in 1966 by the South African ichthyologist James Leonard Brierley Smith with its type locality given as Pinda Reef in Mozambique.

There is a single bony plate on each side of the caudal peduncle and this has a large keel and a forward pointing spine.

In the Western Pacific Ocean it has been recorded from eastern Indonesia and the Philippines north to Taiwan, south to Australia and east to Guam.

[1] In Australia it is found from the northern Great Barrier Reef south to the waters off Cairns.

[2] Naso minor feeds on zooplankton in the water column at depths between 8 and 40 m (26 and 131 ft)[1] and close to reefs.