WoRMS taxon details
Acanthurus grammoptilus Richardson, 1843
272961 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:272961)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Richardson, J. (1843). Contributions to the ichthyology of Australia (continued). <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (New Series).</em> v. 11 (nos 67-8, 71-2): 22-28, 169-182, 352-359, 422-428. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Acanthurus grammoptilus Richardson, 1843. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=272961 on 2026-01-24
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Nomenclature
original description
Richardson, J. (1843). Contributions to the ichthyology of Australia (continued). <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (New Series).</em> v. 11 (nos 67-8, 71-2): 22-28, 169-182, 352-359, 422-428. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acanthurus grammoptilus)
To FishBase
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Acanthurus grammoptilus Richardson, 1843; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2584631)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Acanthurus grammoptilus FIN026014 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acanthurus grammoptilus)
To FishBase
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Acanthurus grammoptilus Richardson, 1843; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2584631)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Acanthurus grammoptilus FIN026014 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
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Unreviewed
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