WoRMS taxon details

Acanthurus coeruleus Bloch & Schneider, 1801

159581  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159581)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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. (2024). 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 2024-10-15
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2005-05-30 09:27:08Z
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original 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]   

context 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]   

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2024). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [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]   

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]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 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]

Unverified
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]
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English blue tang surgeonfishblue tang  [details]
Spanish cirujano azul  [details]