Surgeons on alert, in Andaman and Nicobar Islands

From the archive record

Acanthurus leucosternon is a tropical fish with the common names powder blue tang and powderblue surgeonfish. The powder blue tang is light blue with yellow and white highlighted fins. Its face is a uniform black with a white outlineThe species can grow to a maximum length of 25 cm Acanthurus leucosternon's natural distribution is in the Indian Ocean in clear reef settings, from Indonesia and Christmas Island westward to eastern Africa to the Andaman Sea. Here in the clips, they are schooling around in the maldives. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly sho