Convict Surgeonfish
Acanthurus triostegus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Also calledBandiet-doktervis (afr) · Botana lorek (msa) · Chirurgien Zèbre (fra) · Chirurgien bagnard (fra) · Chirurgien à raies noires (fra) · Cirujano Convicto (spa) · Cirujano Rayado (spa) · Cirurgião Convicto (por) · Cirurgião-convicto (por) · Cà Đuôi gai (vie) · Debam (msa) · Dengkis (msa) · Gitter-Doktorfisch (deu) · Indo-Vaikse triibuline kirurgkala (est)
First described in: Linnæus, Carolus. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. Vol. Tomus I, Editio decima, reformata: i-ii, 1-824.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Convict Surgeonfish or Convict Tang. To 27 cm (10.6 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2008). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Shimada in Nakabo 2002); Gulf of California (Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995) to Chile (Pequeño 1989), including tip of Baja California (Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters (Koeda et al. 2016); depth: intertidal to 90 m (295 ft) (min.: Arndt and Fricke 2019; max.: Grove and Lavenberg 1997).
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distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 4. — General distribution: East Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Panama, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to Lord Howe, Kermadec, Rapa and Ducie islands. Found in lagoon and seaward reefs with hard substrate; juveniles abundant in tide pools, 0 – 90 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. First recorded from New Hanover by Peters (1877: 835); reported from St. Mathias by Duncker & Mohr (1929: 75). ZMH material. A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 1 m depth, by Dean Tully on 22 Sept. 2012.
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
Recorded sightings
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5209217.