WoRMS taxon details
Acanthurus tractus Poey, 1860
301914 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:301914)
accepted
Species
Acronurus nigriculus Poey, 1875 · unaccepted
Teuthis tractus (Poey, 1860) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Poey, F. (1858-1861). Memorias sobra la historia natural de la Isla de Cuba, acompañadas de sumarios Latinos y extractos en Francés. 2: 1-96 (1858), 97-336 (1860), 337-442 (1861), pls. 1-19; La Habana ["1856-1858"]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2513061 [details]
Status Resurrected as the valid name for the northwestern Atlantic species
Status Resurrected as the valid name for the northwestern Atlantic species [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Acanthurus tractus Poey, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=301914 on 2026-04-22
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Nomenclature
original description
Poey, F. (1858-1861). Memorias sobra la historia natural de la Isla de Cuba, acompañadas de sumarios Latinos y extractos en Francés. 2: 1-96 (1858), 97-336 (1860), 337-442 (1861), pls. 1-19; La Habana ["1856-1858"]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2513061 [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Bernal, M. A.; Rocha, L. A. (2011). Acanthurus tractus Poey, 1860, a valid western Atlantic species of surgeonfish (Teleostei, Acanthuridae), distinct from Acanthurus bahianus Castelnau, 1855. Zootaxa. 2905, 63-68., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02905p068.pdf [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
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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Status Resurrected as the valid name for the northwestern Atlantic species [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | ocean surgeonfish | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (22 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Acronurus nigriculus Poey, 1875)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Teuthis tractus (Poey, 1860))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acanthurus tractus)
To FishBase (from synonym Teuthis tractus (Poey, 1860))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Acronurus nigriculus Poey, 1875)
To Fishipedia
To GenBank (94 nucleotides; 31 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Acronurus nigriculus Poey, 1875)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Teuthis tractus (Poey, 1860))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acanthurus tractus)
To FishBase (from synonym Teuthis tractus (Poey, 1860))
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Acronurus nigriculus Poey, 1875)
To Fishipedia
To GenBank (94 nucleotides; 31 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
From editor or global species database
