Ringtail surgeonfish
Acanthurus blochii Valenciennes, 1835
Also calledBalagi (fij) · Balagi nawa (fij) · Balagi titobu (fij) · Blochs Doktorfisch (deu) · Chirurgien à anneau blanc (fra) · Cirurgião Cauda Anelar (por) · Cirurgião-escuro (por) · Debam (msa) · Dengkis (msa) · Kacan Baxareed (som) · Labahita (tgl) · Osujikurohagi (jpn) · Peix cirurgià de cua anellada (cat) · Pesce chirurgo coda ad anello (ita)
First described in: Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1835). Histoire naturelle des poissons. <em>Tome dixième. Suite du livre neuvième. Scombéroïdes. Livre dixième. De la famille des Teuthyes. Livre onzième. De la famille des Taenioïdes. Livre douzième. Des Athérines.</em> v. 10: i-xxiv + 1-482 + 2 pp., Pls. 280-306.
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distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: East and South Africa, Aldabra, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Hawaiian Islands and Society Islands, north to southern Japan, Ryukyu Islands and Ogasawara Islands, south to Lord Howe Island and New Caledonia. Found in lagoon and seaward reefs, 2 – 15 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. New record, based on a video of a specimen taken near Nusa Island, Kavieng District at 5 – 23 m depth, St. KR 8, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell); another taken at Martha's Shoal, off eastern New Hanover, at 7 – 41 m depth, St. KR 122, in 2014.
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5209203.