WoRMS taxon details
Acanthurus nigricauda Duncker & Mohr, 1929
AphiaID: 219626
AphiaID: 219626
| 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 gahm nigricauda Duncker & Mohr, 1929 Acanthurus nigricaudus Duncker & Mohr, 1929 (misspelling) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Kenya [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Reunion [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (28 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 13 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Occurs in clear lagoon and seaward reefs to a depth of at least 30 m around isolated coral heads. Prefers sandy bottoms of bays and lagoons rather than the coral reefs like most other Acanthuridae. The species is sometimes poisonous (Ref. 4795). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219626 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Acanthurus nigricauda Duncker & Mohr, 1929. 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=219626 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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