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has a moderately elongated and compressed body, described as having a slender body and head compared to its congeners. It has a relatively large head with a smoothly sloping dorsal profile with a relatively small mouth. The
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was originally described as a cryptic species which hid among closely related fishes and bore a morphological resemblance to the subadults of those species. The authors chose the Latin word
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319:Naso tergus
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290:Description
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216:in 2011 by
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168:C. W. Chang
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164:K. N. Shen
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