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Acanthurus triostegus
Description
* Acanthurus triostegus (Linnaeus, 1758).
Convict Surgeonfish or Convict Tang. To 27 cm (10.6 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2008). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Shimada in Nakabo 2002); Gulf of California (Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including tip of Baja California (Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters (Koeda et al. 2016); depth: intertidal to 90 m (295 ft) (min.: Arndt and Fricke 2019; max.: Grove and Lavenberg 1997).
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
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Acanthurus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- triostegus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acanthurus triostegus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Koeda, K., Hibino, Y., Yoshida, T., Kimura, Y., Miki, R., Kunishima, T., Sasaki, D., Furukawa, T., Sakurai, M., Eguchi, K., Suzuki, H., Inaba, T., Uejo, T., Tanaka, S., Fujisawa, M., Wada, H. & Uchiyama, T. (2016) Annotated Checklist of Fishes of Yonaguni-jima Island, the Westernmost Island in Japan. Kagoshima University Museum, Korimoto, Kagoshima.
- Arndt, E. & Fricke, R. (2019) Intertidal fishes of Mauritius with special reference to shallow tidepools. Biodiversity Data Journal, 7, e 36754. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / bdj. 7. e 36754