World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) - Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835

WRiMS taxon details

Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835

AphiaID

219634 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219634)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Acanthurus Forsskål, 1775

Original name

Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1835). Histoire naturelle des poissons. 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. v. 10: i-xxiv + 1-482 + 2 pp., Pls. 280-306. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835. Accessed through: Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stepien, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced%20/aphia.php/api-docs/docs/images/images/images/dx.doi.org/10.1186/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219634 on 2026-06-05

Thematic species database citation

Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219634 on 2026-06-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-24 18:26:33Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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original description Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1835). Histoire naturelle des poissons. 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. v. 10: i-xxiv + 1-482 + 2 pp., Pls. 280-306. [details]

context source (PeRMS) Campos-León, S.; Moreno-Mendez, A.; Bearez, P.; Solano-Sare, A. (2019). First report of the yellowfin surgeonfish Acanthurus xanthopterus (Teleostei: Acanthuridae) in northern Peru. Cybium. 43(4): 377-379., available online at https://sfi-cybium.fr/sites/default/files/pdfs-cybium/9-Campos-Leon%201126%20%5BCybium%202019%2C%20434%5D_0.pdf [details] Available for editors

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]