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title: "Elegant Unicornfish"
description: "Naso elegans — Pesci. Naso elegans, the elegant unicornfish, the blonde naso tang, Indian orange-spine unicorn, lipstick surgeonfish, lipstick tang, orangespine unicornfish or smoothheaded unicornfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acanthuridae, the surgeonfishes, unicornfishes and tangs."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/elegant-unicornfish
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Elegant Unicornfish

> Naso elegans — Pesci. Naso elegans, the elegant unicornfish, the blonde naso tang, Indian orange-spine unicorn, lipstick surgeonfish, lipstick tang, orangespine unicornfish or smoothheaded unicornfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acanthuridae, the surgeonfishes, unicornfishes and tangs.

- Scientific name: *Naso elegans*
- Category: `fish` (Pesci)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mare e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 1513
- Wikidata: [Q83720](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83720)
- iNaturalist taxon: [52452](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/52452)

## Names

- en: Elegant Unicornfish
- de: Indischer Gelbklingen-Nasendoktor
- es: Pez Unicornio Elegante
- fr: Nason à épines oranges

## Countries with the most observations

EG (600), MV (253), SC (72), RE (61), MM (40), SA (36), TH (26), ZA (26), ID (24), IN (18), MU (12), MZ (10)

## Summary

Naso elegans, the elegant unicornfish, the blonde naso tang, Indian orange-spine unicorn, lipstick surgeonfish, lipstick tang, orangespine unicornfish or smoothheaded unicornfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acanthuridae, the surgeonfishes, unicornfishes and tangs. This species is found in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naso_elegans

## Photo

![Elegant Unicornfish](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/elegant-unicornfish/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/137621852

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/elegant-unicornfish?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).