Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes 1835
Description
Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835.
Purple Surgeonfish, Yellowfin Surgeonfish,or Yellow-masked Surgeon. To 70 cm (27.6 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Shimada in Nakabo 2002); Palos Verdes, southern California (Bill Power, pers. comm. to M.L.); Gulf of California (Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995) to Ecuador (Béarez 1996), 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: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 148 m (3–485 ft) (min.: Arndt and Fricke 2019; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Acanthurus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Species
- xanthopterus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- 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.
- Bearez, P. (1996) Lista de los peces marinos del Ecuador continental. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44, 731 - 741.
- 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
- Weijerman, M., Gruss, A., Dove, D., Asher, J., Williams, I. D., Kelley, C. & Drazen, J. (2019) Shining a light on the composition and distribution patterns of mesophotic and subphotic fish communities in Hawai'i. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 630, 161 - 182. https: // doi. org / 10.3354 / meps 13135