Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Acanthurus monroviae Steindachner, 1876 (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Acanthurus chirurgus (non Bloch, 1787) (misapplied name)

Acanthurus phlebotomus (non Valenciennes, 1835) (misapplied name)

Hepatus hepatus (non Linnaeus, 1766) (misapplied name)

Teuthis munroviae (Steindachner, 1876) (synonym)

Common names:

surgeonfish English

尾斑刺尾魚 Mandarin Chinese

尾斑刺尾鱼 Mandarin Chinese

Alicate Portuguese

Asno-na-seta Portuguese

Barbeiro Creole, Portuguese, Portuguese

Canivete Portuguese, Spanish

Chirurgien chas-chas French

Cirujano Spanish

Cirurgião Portuguese

Docteur French

Doktooru jën Wolof

Doktorou dièn Wolof

Doto Fon GBE, Surigaonon

Finadi yékhé Susu

Finèdi yèkhè Susu

Lanceteiro Creole, Portuguese

Monrovia doctorfish English

Monrovia-kirurgfisk Danish

Navajón Spanish

Navajón caniveta Spanish

Navajón canivete Spanish

Peixe barbeiro Creole, Portuguese

Peixe-barbeiro Portuguese

Peixe-canivete Portuguese

Peixe-unha Portuguese

Pokolec afrykanski Polish

Sourou sègne Wolof

Suru seen Wolof

Unha Portuguese

Classification:

Animalia

LSID

Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

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Order Perciformes

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Family Acanthuridae

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Genus Acanthurus

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Distribution:

Togo; Spain; Sierra Leone; Senegal; Nigeria; Sao Tome and Principe; Morocco; Mediterranean Sea; Mauritania; Mediterranean and Black Sea; Liberia; Israel; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea Current; Guinea-Bissau; Gabon; Equatorial Guinea; Ébrié Lagoon; Eastern Atlantic: southern Morocco to Angola, including Cape Verde and São Tomé.; Côte d'Ivoire; Congo, Republic of; Congo, Dem. Rep. of the; Cape Verde; Cameroon; Canary Current; Brazil; Benin; Benguela Current; Atlantic, Southwest; Atlantic, Southeast; Atlantic, Eastern Central; Angola; Atlantic Ocean

Additional data:

Year from Eschmeyer (Ref. 12965).

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Group expert : Randall J.E., Data last modified by FishBase 19-Aug-1994

Online resource:

http://www.fishbase.org/...


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:40574090-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009


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