| Home |
| About |
| Search taxa |
| Taxon tree |
| Literature |
| Checklist |
| Specimens |
| Match taxa |
| Editors |
| Statistics |
| Users |
| Webservice |
| Photogallery |
| Info downloads |
| Log in |
 RSS |
 Add provider |
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) > 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 (look up in IMIS) [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] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
| ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To FishBase To GenBank To Marine Species Identification Portal To Barcode of Life (34 barcodes) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts (USA), Bermuda, and the northern Gulf of Mexico to São Paulo, Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Senegal. [details] | ||||||||||
| Image |
| ||||||||||
| Edit history |
| ||||||||||
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | |||||||||||
| Citation: Bailly, N. (2009). Acanthurus chirurgus (Bloch, 1787). In: Nicolas Bailly (2009). World Database of Marine Pisces. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159580 on 2010-09-02 | |||||||||||
 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License |
