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WoRMS taxon detailsAcanthurus coeruleus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
159581 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159581)
accepted
Species
Acanthurus brevis Poey, 1860 · unaccepted
Acanthurus broussonnetii Desmarest, 1823 · unaccepted
Acanthurus caeruleus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Acanthurus coerulus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Acanthurus heliodes (Barbour, 1905) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Acanthurus violaceus Castelnau, 1855 · unaccepted
Acronurus caeruleatus Poey, 1875 · unaccepted
Hepatus caeruleus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Hepatus pawnee Breder, 1927 · unaccepted
Teuthis coeruleus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) · unaccepted
Teuthis helioides Barbour, 1905 · unaccepted
marine,
Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. <em>Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.</em> Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary [details]
Distribution Western Atlantic: New York, USA and Bermuda to the Gulf of Mexico and Brazil
Distribution Western Atlantic: New York, USA and Bermuda to the Gulf of Mexico and Brazil [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Acanthurus coeruleus Bloch & Schneider, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159581 on 2025-07-16
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. <em>Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.</em> Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary [details] original description (of Acanthurus violaceus Castelnau, 1855) Castelnau, F. L. (1855). Poissons. In: Animaux nouveaux or rares recueillis pendant l'expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud, de Rio de Janeiro a Lima, et de Lima au Para; exécutée par ordre du gouvernement Français pendant les années 1843 a 1847 ... Part 7,. <em>Zoologie. Paris (P. Bertrand).</em> v. 2: i-xii + 1-112, Pls. 1-50. page(s): 25, Pl. 12 (fig. 1) [details] original description (of Teuthis helioides Barbour, 1905) Barbour, T. (1905). Notes on Bermudian fishes. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 46(7): 107-134 [details] original description (of Acanthurus broussonnetii Desmarest, 1823) Desmarest, A. G. (1823). Première Décade Ichthyologique, ou, Description complète de dix espèces de poissons nouvelles, ou imparfaitement connues, habitant la mer qui baigne les côtes de l'ile de Cuba. <em>Mémoires de la Société linnéenne de Paris.</em> v. 2: 163-210. page(s): 186 [26], Pl. 3 (fig. 1) [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] Ecologyecology 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]  Othercontext source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [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]  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species vector dispersal in Cypriote part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin : Very likely to have been introduced through human activities. The presence of at least one juvenile specimen in the Mediterranean Sea could be explained by three processes: (i) arrival in the Mediterranean Sea through the Atlantic Ocean unrelated to human [details]Introduced species vector dispersal in Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin: Vessels/Culture [details] Unreviewed
Diet Feeds entirely on algae [details]Distribution Western Atlantic: New York, USA and Bermuda to the Gulf of Mexico and Brazil [details] Habitat inhabits coral reefs, inshore grassy or rocky areas; forms small groups [details] Habitat nektonic [details] Importance Social- Minor Commercial, fishery, aquarium, bait [details]
To Barcode of Life (55 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Acanthurus broussonnetii Desmarest, 1823) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Hepatus caeruleus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Acanthurus coerulus Bloch & Schneider, 1801) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) (from synonym Teuthis coeruleus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Hepatus pawnee Breder, 1927) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Acronurus caeruleatus Poey, 1875) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (49 publications) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Teuthis helioides Barbour, 1905) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Acanthurus brevis Poey, 1860) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Acanthurus caeruleus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)) To Digital Atlas Of Marine Species & Locations, DAMSL (Blue Tang Surgeonfish) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acanthurus coeruleus) To FishBase To FishBase (from synonym Acanthurus broussonnetii Desmarest, 1823) To FishBase (from synonym Acanthurus violaceus Castelnau, 1855) To FishBase (from synonym Acronurus caeruleatus Poey, 1875) To FishBase (from synonym Acanthurus heliodes (Barbour, 1905)) To FishBase (from synonym Acanthurus brevis Poey, 1860) To FishBase (from synonym Acanthurus coerulus Bloch & Schneider, 1801) To FishBase (from synonym Acanthurus caeruleus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)) To FishBase (from synonym Hepatus caeruleus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)) To FishBase (from synonym Hepatus pawnee Breder, 1927) To FishBase (from synonym Teuthis coeruleus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)) To FishBase (from synonym Teuthis helioides Barbour, 1905) To FishBase images (Acanthurus coeruleus, Bahamas, by Randall, J.E.) To Fishipedia To FishSounds To GenBank (54 nucleotides; 54 proteins) To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) To NMNH Extant Collection (Acanthurus coeruleus USNM 413140 lateral view) To NMNH Extant Collection (Acanthurus coeruleus USNM 413141 lateral view) To ITIS From editor or global species database
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