Dory’s real-life counterpart is a Paracanthurus hepatus, or Pacific blue tang fish, which is sometimes referred to as a royal blue tang or hippo tang. The name is slightly misleading ...

One of the biggest movie stars of 2016 is Dory, a precocious and forgetful fish featured in "Finding Dory." Dory is a cartoon depiction of a Paracanthurus hepatus, a type of surgeonfish that also ...

“If someone’s first setting up a marine or saltwater tank, that would be one of the fish I recommend.” Russell says he hasn’t seen a spike in Hepatus tang sales since the theatrical ...

1. IT HAS A LOT OF ALIASES. Though the fish's scientific name is paracanthurus hepatus, it's also known as Pacific blue tang, royal blue tang, hippo tang, regal tang and palette surgeonfish ...

One example of this features the friendly clownfish Nemo and his side-kick Dory, a blue tang ... hepatus. This showed that while Dory fans were not willing to invest time and money to buy pet fish ...

The problem with keeping exotic fish such as clownfish (the group to which Nemo and his father, Marlin, belong) and blue tangs (like the forgetful Dory) as pets is that they aren’t as easy ...