Acanthurus guttatus

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Family : Surgeonfishes , tangs , unicornfishes ; Occurs in surge zone of clear seaward reefs[1]. Browses on filamentous and calcareous algae. Forms schools.

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

May be found at depths of 0 to 6 meters.

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,455 meters (0 to -17,897 feet).[2]

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Acanthurus guttatus Forster, 1801 • Acanthurus guttatus Kittlitz, 1834 • Harpurus guttatus (Forster • Hepatus guttatus (Forster • Rhombotides guttatus (Forster • Teuthis guttatus (Forster • Zabrasoma guttatus (Forster

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: In Bloch & Schneider. Author from Eschmeyer[3].

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 27-Aug-1994

Similar Species

Members of the genus Acanthurus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 62 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. achilles (Red-Spotted Surgeonfish) · A. albipectoralis (Whitefin Surgeonfish) · A. auranticavus (Orange-Socket Surgeonfish) · A. bahianus (Ocean Surgeonfish) · A. bariene (Bariene Surgeonfish) · A. blochi (Ringtail Surgeonfish) · A. blochii (Blue-Banded Pualu) · A. caeruleus (Blue Tang Surgeonfish) · A. celebicus (Celebis's Surgeonfish) · A. chirurgus (Black Doctorfish) · A. chronixis (Chronixis Surgeonfish) · A. chrysosoma (Blue Tang Surgeonfish) · A. coeruleus (Blue Tang Surgeonfish) · A. crestonis (Barbero Negro) · A. dussumieri (Dussumier's Surgeonfish) · A. nigroris (Elongate Surgeon) · A. flavescens (Yellow Sailfin Tang) · A. fowleri (Fowler´s Surgeonfish) · A. fowleriinde (Fowler's Surgeon) · A. nigrofuscus (Ringtailed Surgeonfish) · A. fuscus (Black-Barred Surgeonfish) · A. gahhm (Black Surgeonfish) · A. gahm nigricauda (Black-Barred Surgeonfish) · A. gemmatus (Gem Surgeonfish) · A. glaucopareius (Whitefaced Surgeonfish) · A. grammoptilus (Finelined Surgeonfish) · A. guttatus (White-Spotted Surgeonfish) · A. japonicus (Japan Surgeonfish) · A. pyroferus (Powder-Blue Surgeonfish) · A. leucocheilus (Pale-Lipped Surgeonfish) · A. leucopareius (Whitethroated Surgeonfish) · A. leucosternon (Blue Surgeonfish) · A. lineatus (Blue-Lined Squirrelfish) · A. lituratus (Striped-Faced Unicornfish) · A. maculiceps (Yellow-Freckled Surgeon Fish) · A. mata (Bleeker's Surgeonfish) · A. monroviae (Monrovia Doctorfish) · A. nigricans (Black Surgeonfish) · A. nigricauda (Black-Barred Surgeonfish) · A. nigrofuscus (Spot-Cheeked Surgeonfish) · A. nigroris (Bluelined Surgeonfish) · A. nubilus (Bluelined Surgeonfish) · A. olivaceus (Gendarme Fish) · A. polyzona (Black-Barred Surgeonfish) · A. pyroferus (Chocolate Surgeonfish) · A. randalli (Gulf Surgeonfish) · A. rostratus (Longnose Surgeonfish) · A. scopas (Brown Sailfish Surgeonfish) · A. sohal (Red Sea Clown Surgeon) · A. striatus (Bristle-Toothed Surgeonfish) · A. strigosus (Slender-Toothed Surgeonfish) · A. tennenti (Lieutenant Surgeonfish) · A. tennentii (Double-Whip Butterfly-Bream) · A. thompsoni (Thompson´s Surgeonfish) · A. tractus (Fiveband Surgeonfish) · A. triostegus (Fiveband Surgeonfish) · A. triostegus triostegus (Fiveband Surgeonfish) · A. tristis (Blackcheek Surgeonfish) · A. velifer (Pacific Sail-Fin Surgeonfish) · A. vittatus (Yellowtail Sailfin Tang) · A. xanthopterus (Ring-Tailed Surgeonfish) · A. zebra (Eel Loach)

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Further Reading

• A list of the fishes of Hawaii, with notes and descriptions of new species, by David Starr Jordan and Eric Knight Jordan. Pittsburgh, Board of trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1922. url p. 66.
• A list of the fishes of Hawaii: with notes and descriptions of new species / by David Starr Jordan and Eric Knight Jordan. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1922. url p. 66.
• An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1989. url p. 211, p. 63.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , , p. 158, p. 165, p. 215, p. 248, p. 616, p. 616, p. 631, p. 631.
• Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 329, p. 333.
• Catalogue of the fishes in the. .. Museum / by A. Günther 1861. url p. 329, p. 333.
• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 211, p. 27.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 925.
• Memoirs: Australian Museum. Sydney: The Museum, 1851- url p. 188.
• Occasional papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1898-1984. url p. 17, p. 17.
• Occasional papers. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press. url p. 17.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 494, p. 494.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 170, p. 171, p. 191, p. 62.
• The Natural history of Enewetak Atoll / edited by Dennis M. Devaney. .. [et al.]; prepared by Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy Research, Office of Health and Environmental Research, Ecological Research Division, c1987. url p. 110, p. 153, p. 310, p. 314.
• The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the Archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania. [By David Starr Jordan and Alvin Seale]. .. 1906 Washington, Government print off., 1906. url p. 354.
• The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. .. by Dr. Max Weber. .. and Dr. L.F. de Beaufort. Leiden, E.J. Brill, Ltd., 1911- url p. 52.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• FishBase
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Froese, R., and D. Pauly. FishBase 2004. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 7 providers.
• Randall, John E. (from FishBase).
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 02, 2008:

• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection (AfrOBIS)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South Western Pacific Regional OBIS Data All Sea Bio Subset (South Western Pacific OBIS)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
• National Chemical Laboratory: IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 119167
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-31078
• Fishbase Species ID: 4736
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13848950
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 172263
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 101190

Footnotes

1. Lieske, E. and R. Myers (1994). Collins Pocket Guide. Coral reef fishes. Indo-Pacific & Caribbean including the Red Sea. Haper Collins Publishers, 400 p. [back]
2. Mean = -2,057.120 meters (-6,749.081 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,318.290 based on 41 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
3. Eschmeyer, W.N., Editor (1998). Catalog of fishes. Special Publication, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 3 vols. 2905 p. [back]

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