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GBIF·5209174speciesAnimalia0 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyAcanthuridae
  5. ›genusAcanthurus
Acanthurus chirurgus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Doctorfish

Acanthurus chirurgus (Bloch, 1787)

Also calledAcaraúna (por) · Acaraúna-preta (por) · Atlandi kirurgkala (est) · Barbeiro (por) · Carauna (por) · Caraúna (por) · Chirurgien docteur (fra) · Chirurgien rayé (fra) · Cirujano (spa) · Cirurgião (por) · Doctor (spa) · Gallinazo (spa) · Lanceta (por) · Navajero (spa)

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”.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5209174.