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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 »  genus Acanthurus

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 violaceus Castelnau, 1855
Acronurus caeruleatus Poey, 1875
Hepatus caeruleus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Hepatus pawnee Breder, 1927
Teuthis coeruleus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

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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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juvenile animal

Acanthurus coeruleus - Blue Tang Surgeonfish

Author: Klaus Rudloff
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Links and literature

CZ AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [species/168]

Plíštil J. (Ed.) (2009): AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [http://aquatab.net] [as Acanthurus coeruleus Bloch & Schneider, 1801]
Data retrieved on: 17 January 2010
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: 16 December 2010
CH DE EN FR IT NL PR SP FishBase [944]

Froese R., Pauly D. (eds.): FishBase [http://www.fishbase.org]
EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2 [177953]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Acanthurus coeruleus Bloch & Schneider, 1801]
Data retrieved on: 27 January 2014
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