Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609697 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6-FF5E-FF7A-98EA-F951FEE33790 |
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Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835 |
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Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835 View in CoL .
Purple Surgeonfish, Yellowfin Surgeonfish,or Yellow-masked Surgeon. To 70 cm (27.6 in) TL ( Robertson and Allen 2002). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Shimada in Nakabo 2002); Palos Verdes, southern California (Bill Power, pers. comm. to M.L.); Gulf of California (Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995) to Ecuador ( Béarez 1996), 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: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 148 m (3–485 ft) (min.: Arndt and Fricke 2019; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019).
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