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Acanthurus

WoRMS 125908ITIS 172251GBIF 2379647key worms:125908
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172251 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · perevolotsky · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Acanthurus fowleri

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Acanthurus
Photo · Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Acanthurus is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acanthuridae, which includes the surgeonfishes, unicornfishes and tangs, found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1998 and 2002, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

3
observations
3
records
2
sampling events
1998–2002
years
1
datasets
1
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 2 obs · 2 events · 2002 · larva
    name used: Acanthurus · code 2190

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125908%22