Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835
Description
Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835 —Yellowfin surgeonfish
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Tigak Islands, Kavieng, New Ireland by Wright & Richards (1985: 73), and from Lihir Group, Namatamai District by Fry et al. (2006: 129); specimens observed at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005 by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey, and by Barry C. Russell during 7–28 June 2014. A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 5 m depth, by Dean Tully on 6 July 2011; a video of a specimen taken at Kawauiliaka Island, off northeastern New Hanover, at 3–12 m depth, St. KR132, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 5.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Panama, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Found in various coral reef habitats, sand slopes and lagoons, 0–100 m depth. Marine.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Acanthuridae
- Genus
- Acanthurus
- Species
- xanthopterus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acanthurus xanthopterus in, 1835 sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019
References
- Cuvier, G. L. C. F. D. & Valenciennes, A. (1835) Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome dixieme. Suite du livre neuvieme. Scomberoides. Livre dixieme. De la famille des Teuthyes. Livre onzieme. De la famille des Taenioides. Livre douzieme. Des Atherines. F. G. Levrault, Paris, xxiv + 482 + 2 pp., pls. 280 - 306. [Author: Valenciennes.]
- Wright, A. & Richards, A. H. (1985) A multispecies fishery associated with coral reefs in the Tigak Islands, Papua New Guinea. Asian Marine Biology, 2, 69 - 84.
- Fry, G. C., Brewer, D. T. & Venables, W. N. (2006) Vulnerability of deepwater demersal fishes to commercial fishing: Evidence from a study around a tropical volcanic seamount in Papua New Guinea. Fisheries Research, 81, 126 - 141.