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GBIF·2379882speciesAnimalia1,109 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyAcanthuridae
  5. ›genusZebrasoma
Zebrasoma xanthurum
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Purple Tang

Zebrasoma xanthurum (Blyth, 1852)

Also calledAcanthure à Queue Jaune (fra) · Gulstjärtad Kirurgfisk (swe) · Kejserkirurgfisk (dan)

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

Introduced species impact

Italian part of the Tyrrhenian Sea (Marine Region) Aquaculture: accidental

World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

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Recorded sightings

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2379882.