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Epaulette Surgeonfish
Acanthurus nigricauda Duncker & Mohr, 1929
Also called'oturi (tah) · Chirurgien à Queue Blanche (fra) · Chirurgien à marque noire (fra) · Cirurgião Graduado (por) · Debam (msa) · Epaulet-doktervis (afr) · Kuromontsuki (jpn) · クロモンツキ (jpn) · Epaulet-kirurgfisk (dan)
First described in: Duncker, G.; Mohr, E. (1929). Die Fische der Südsee-Expedition der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Stiftung 1908--1909. 3. Teil. Acanthopteri sens. ampl., Physoclisti malacopterygii, Physostomi, Plagiostomi. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum in Hamburg.</em> 44: 57-84.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 4. — General distribution: East and South Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Tuamotu Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Found in clear lagoon and seaward coral and rocky reefs around isolated coral heads; prefers sandy bottoms of bays and lagoons, 0 – 30 m depth. Marine.
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
materials_examined
Status at New Ireland. Originally described from Massau Island, St. Mathias Group as Acanthurus gahm var. nigricauda by Duncker & Mohr (1929: 75), based on ZMH H. 149 (lectotype, selected by Ladiges et al., 1958: 156). Specimens observed at Kavieng fish market in 2004 – 2005 by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey, and by Barry C. Russell during 7 – 28 June 2014. A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island at 3 m depth by Dean Tully in Sept. 2015; a specimen observed at Balang Island, New Hanover, 0 – 18 m depth, St. T 21, on 6 Nov. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen.
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
Where it has been recorded
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5209160.