Ctenochaetus striatus

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Inhabits reef flats and lagoon and seaward reefs to a depth of over 30 m. Occurs over coral , rock, pavement, or rubble substrates. Usually found at depths of 3 to 30 meters.

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -6,737 meters (0 to -22,103 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Biology

Diet

Feeds on surface film of blue-green algae and diatoms (making this species a key link in the ciguatera food chain) as well as on various small invertebrates .

Behavior

May occur singly or in small to very large, often mixed-species aggregations.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Acanthurus argenteus Quoy & Gaimard • Acanthurus ctenodon Valenciennes • Acanthurus flavoguttatus Kittlitz • Acanthurus ketlitzii Valenciennes • Acanthurus kettlitzii Valenciennes • Acanthurus striatus Quoy & Gaimard • Acronurus argenteus (Quoy & Gaimard • Ctenochaetus strigosus (Bennett • Ctenodon ctenodon (Valenciennes • Ctenodon cuvierii Swainson

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Quoy & Gaimard In: Voy.Uranie,Zool., 1825.

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

Similar Species

Members of the genus Ctenochaetus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. binotatus (Two-Spot Bristle-Tooth) · C. cyanocheilus (Short-Tail Bristle-Tooth) · C. hawaiiensis (Hawaiian Bristletooth) · C. marginatus (Blue-Spotted Bristletooth) · C. striatus (Bristle-Toothed Surgeonfish) · C. strigosus (Bristletoothed Surgeonfish) · C. tominiensis (Yellow-Tip Bristle-Tooth) · C. truncatus (Indian Gold-Ring Bristle-Tooth)

More Info

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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: 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. 213, p. 64.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , , , , , , p. 201, p. 202, p. 614, p. 614, p. 620, p. 620.
• Check-list of species of fishes known from the PhilippineArchipelago, by David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1910. url p. 42.
• Commercial fisheries review. [Washington]: National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] url p. 99.
• Coral Reefs of the World. url p. 120.
• Current bibliography for aquatic sciences and fisheries. London, Taylor & Francis ltd. url p. 1066.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 221, p. 228, p. 242, p. 246, p. 415, p. 416, p. 535.
• Fishery circular / U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries. [Washington]: The Bureau, 1931-1939. url p. 397.
• Fishes of the Crane Pacific expedition, by Albert W. Herre. 21 1936 Chicago, 1936. url p. 15, p. 16, p. 246, p. 247, p. 464.
• IUCN Directory of Protected Areas in Oceania IUCN url p. 149, p. 295, p. 438.
• NOAA technical report NMFS SSRF. Seattle, Wash.: National Marine Fisheries Service; url p. 10, p. 30, p. 6.
• Occasional papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1898-1984. url p. 67.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 1171.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 423, p. 57.
• Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the fiscal year. .. with appendixes Washington: G.P.O., 1914- url p. 363.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url p. 132, p. 143, p. 153, p. 92, p. 97.
• The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan = Tokyo Teikoku Daigaku kiyo. Rika. Tokyo, Japan: The University, 1898-1925. url p. 214.
• The fishery resources of the Philippine Islands with descriptions of new species / Manila?: s.n., ca. 1909 - ca. 1912 url .
• 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. 355.
• The shore fishes / by William C. Kendall and Lewis Radcliffe; with eight plates. 35 1912 Cambridge, U.S.A.: Printed for the Museum, 1912. url p. 145.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• 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 October 07, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• 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: AIMS - Baited Remote Underwater Video Station (OBIS Australia)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bishop Museum Data (OBIS distribution) (USOBIS)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Northern Barrier Marine Life (OBIS Australia)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection (AfrOBIS)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• Senckenberg: Collection Pisces
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3863382
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-23451
• Fishbase Species ID: 1262
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13831703
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 172308
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 108439

Footnotes

1. Mean = -1,560.880 meters (-5,120.997 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,398.600 based on 452 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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