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Acanthurus achilles Shaw 1803
Description
* Acanthurus achilles Shaw, 1803.
Achilles Surgeon or Achilles Tang. To 26 cm (10.2 in) TL (Randall in Carpenter and Niem 2001). Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (Thomson et al. 1979), and south-western Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2015). Inshore surge areas (Allen and Robertson 1994); depth: to 45 m (148 ft) (Wagner et al. 2014).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 208, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Acanthuridae
- Genus
- Acanthurus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Shaw
- Species
- achilles
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acanthurus achilles Shaw, 1803 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (Eds.). (2001) The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 5. Bony Fishes Part 3 (Menidae to Pomacentridae). Volime 6. Bony Fishes Part 4 (Labridae to Latimeriidae), Estuarine Crocodiles, Sea Turtles, Sea Snakes and Marine Mammals. FAO, Rome.
- Thomson, D. A., Findley, L. T. & Kerstitch, A. N. (1979) Reef Fishes of the Sea of Cortez. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
- Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
- Wagner, D., Kosaki, R. K., Spalding, H. L., Whitton, R. K., Pyle, R. L., Sherwood, A. R., Tsuda, R. T. & Calcinai, B. (2014) Mesophotic surveys of the flora and fauna at Johnston Atoll, central Pacific Ocean. Marine Biodiversity Records, 7, e 68;