WoRMS taxon details
Acanthurus chirurgus (Bloch, 1787)
AphiaID: 159580
AphiaID: 159580
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Acanthuridae (Family) > Acanthurinae (Subfamily) > Acanthurus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Acanthurus Forsskål, 1775 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Acanthurus chirurgicus (Bloch, 1787) (misspelling) Acanthurus phlebotomus Valenciennes, 1835 Chaetodon chirurgus Bloch, 1787 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] basis of record: Robins, C.R., G.C. Ray, J. Douglass and R. Freund. 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. 354 p. [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Caligus biaculeatus Brian, 1914 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus atromaculatus Wilson C.B., 1913 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus kabatae Cressey, 1991 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (45 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (76 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (34 nucleotides; 34 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts (USA), Bermuda, and the northern Gulf of Mexico to São Paulo, Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Senegal. [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159580 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Acanthurus chirurgus (Bloch, 1787). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159580 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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