Talk:Tang (fish)

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Something doesn't seem to be right in the description of tangs. The article has a picture of a blue tang and says they don't live in the atlantic, but 30 seconds in google searching for Blue Tang Habitat comes up with a lot claiming they live in the Caribbean.

http://www.google.com/search?q=blue+tang+habitat&hl=en

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/BlueTang/BlueTang.html

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/marine/tangs/caribblue.php

http://www.fishtanksandponds.com/fishprofiles/bluetang.htm

Different species have different ranges. This article is kind of a mess overall actually. Stan 20:51, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hrm...maybe you're mixing up Acanthurus coeruleus (Atlantic Blue Tang) with Paracanthurus hepatus (Regal Blue Tang)? They're two totally different species with similar common names...CarrieOkie86 (talk) 02:03, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

We should merge this page with the surgeonfish, as, after all, tangs and surgeonfish are the same type of fish.--Mr Fink 15:57, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Mr Fink, definitely. This Tang article seems to concentrate on Zebrasoma, but Tang is not a description restricted to that genus.

I agree, someone seems to have added "Only this genus of surgeon fish is properly termed "Tang"."...that makes no sense, 'Tang' is not a proper name, so no, not only Zebrasoma is properly termed a tang. It is a generic name for all the fish in the family. -Chris

yep -agree totally.

The article tries to talk about Tnags (zebrasoma sp.) but then starts mentioning non-Z surgeons as if they were tangs - probably due to common confusion... Let's merge the Surgeon and tang articles - there is good info in both and a lot of redundancy.