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Blue Tang Surgeonfish
Acanthurus coeruleus Bloch & Schneider, 1801

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Actinopterygii - ray-finned fishes »  order Perciformes - perch-likes »  family Acanthuridae - surgeonfishes and unicornfishes

Scientific synonyms

Acanthurus brevis Poey, 1860
Acanthurus broussonnetii Desmarest, 1823
Acanthurus caeruleus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Acanthurus coerulus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Acanthurus heliodes (Barbour, 1905)
Acanthurus nigricans (non Linnaeus, 1758)
Acanthurus violaceus Castelnau, 1855
Acronurus caeruleatus Poey, 1875
Hepatus caeruleus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Hepatus pawnee Breder, 1927

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Other names

= Blue Barber
= Blue Doctor
= Blue Doctorfish
= Blue Tang
= Blur Tang
= Yellow Barber

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Images

Acanthurus coeruleus - Blue Tang Surgeonfish

Acanthurus coeruleus - Blue Tang Surgeonfish

Acanthurus coeruleus - Blue Tang Surgeonfish

Acanthurus coeruleus - Blue Tang Surgeonfish

Acanthurus coeruleus - Blue Tang Surgeonfish

Author: Stan Sitar

Acanthurus coeruleus - Blue Tang Surgeonfish

Acanthurus coeruleus - Blue Tang Surgeonfish

Acanthurus coeruleus - Blue Tang Surgeonfish

Acanthurus coeruleus - Blue Tang Surgeonfish

Author: Klaus Rudloff
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Links and literature

CZ AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [species/168] [as Acanthurus coeruleus Bloch & Schneider, 1801]
Plíštil J. (Ed.) (2009): AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [http://aquatab.net]
Data retrieved on: 2010/01/17
CZ RYBICKY.NET - Akvaristika pro každého [atlasryb/bodlok_modry]
Pecháček L.: RYBICKY.NET - Akvaristika pro každého [http://rybicky.net/]
EN ARKive [/blue-tang/acanthurus-coeruleus/]
ARKive [http://www.arkive.org]
Data retrieved on: 2010/12/16
CH DE EN FR IT NL PR SP FishBase [944]
Froese R., Pauly D. (eds.): FishBase [http://www.fishbase.org]
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