Whitetail Bristletooth

Ctenochaetus flavicauda Fowler, 1938

Also calledChirurgien à queue blanche (fra) · Cirurgião-de-Tuamotu (por) · Cirurgião-de-cauda-branca (por) · Peix cirurgià de Tuamotu (cat) · Pesce chirurgo dalla coda bianca (ita) · Pez Cirujano de Cola Blanca y Dientes de Peine (spa) · maito (tah)

First described in: Fowler, H. W. (1938). The fishes of the George Vanderbilt South Pacific Expedition, 1937. <em>Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 2: i-v + 1-349, Pls. 1-12.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.