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Acanthurus achilles Shaw, 1803 
AphiaID: 272957

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 achillas Shaw, 1803 (misspelling)
Acanthurus aterrimus Günther, 1872
Hepatus achilles (Shaw, 1803)
Hepatus aterrimus (Günther, 1872)
Teuthis achilles (Shaw, 1803)
Teuthis aterrimus (Günther, 1872)
Sources  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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To ITIS
Image 
Acanthurus achilles
Acanthurus achilles
added on 2008-08-12 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:272957
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  created  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Acanthurus achilles Shaw, 1803. 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=272957 on 2013-06-19
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