WoRMS taxon details
Acanthurus tennentii Günther, 1861
219632 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219632)
accepted
Species
Acanthurus bicommatus Smith, 1956 · unaccepted (synonym)
Acanthurus plagiatus Peters, 1876 · unaccepted
Acanthurus tennenti Günther, 1861 · unaccepted (misspelling)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Günther, A. (1861). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gobiidae, Discoboli, Pediculati, Blenniidae, Labyrinthici, Mugilidae, Notacanthi. <em>London.</em> v. 3: i-xxv + 1-586 + i-x. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Acanthurus tennentii Günther, 1861. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219632 on 2025-06-27
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Nomenclature
original description
Günther, A. (1861). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Gobiidae, Discoboli, Pediculati, Blenniidae, Labyrinthici, Mugilidae, Notacanthi. <em>London.</em> v. 3: i-xxv + 1-586 + i-x. [details]
original description (of Acanthurus bicommatus Smith, 1956) Smith, J. L. B. (1956). The fishes of Aldabra. - Part II. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 12).</em> 8 (93) (art. 82) (for Sept. 1955): 689-697, Pl. 18. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Acanthurus bicommatus Smith, 1956) Smith, J. L. B. (1956). The fishes of Aldabra. - Part II. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 12).</em> 8 (93) (art. 82) (for Sept. 1955): 689-697, Pl. 18. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [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] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | double-band surgeonfish [from synonym] | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (18 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Acanthurus tennenti Günther, 1861)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Acanthurus plagiatus Peters, 1876)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acanthurus tennentii)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Acanthurus tennenti Günther, 1861)
To FishBase (from synonym Acanthurus plagiatus Peters, 1876)
To FishBase (from synonym Acanthurus bicommatus Smith, 1956)
To FishBase images (Acanthurus tennenti, Maldives, by Randall, J.E.) (from synonym Acanthurus tennenti Günther, 1861)
To Fishipedia
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Acanthurus bicommatus RAD112357-001) (from synonym Acanthurus bicommatus Smith, 1956)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Acanthurus bicommatus RAD112357-001) (from synonym Acanthurus bicommatus Smith, 1956)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Acanthurus tennentii FIN026051 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Acanthurus tennenti Günther, 1861)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Acanthurus plagiatus Peters, 1876)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acanthurus tennentii)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Acanthurus tennenti Günther, 1861)
To FishBase (from synonym Acanthurus plagiatus Peters, 1876)
To FishBase (from synonym Acanthurus bicommatus Smith, 1956)
To FishBase images (Acanthurus tennenti, Maldives, by Randall, J.E.) (from synonym Acanthurus tennenti Günther, 1861)
To Fishipedia
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Acanthurus bicommatus RAD112357-001) (from synonym Acanthurus bicommatus Smith, 1956)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Acanthurus bicommatus RAD112357-001) (from synonym Acanthurus bicommatus Smith, 1956)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Acanthurus tennentii FIN026051 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
