WoRMS taxon details

Acanthurus mata (Cuvier, 1829)

219651  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:219651)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Chaetodon mata Cuvier, 1829) Cuvier, G. (1829). Le Règne Animal distribué, d'apres son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. <em>Déterville, Paris.</em> Edition 2. v. 2: i-xv + 1-406., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31771348
page(s): 224 [details]   
Description Inhabits steep slopes, often in turbid waters, generally in the vicinity of coral reefs or rocky bottoms. May form...  
Description Inhabits steep slopes, often in turbid waters, generally in the vicinity of coral reefs or rocky bottoms. May form aggregations. Feeds on zooplankton. Marketed fresh. Its flesh is almost never poisonous (Ref. 4795). [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Acanthurus mata (Cuvier, 1829). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=219651 on 2024-04-28
Date
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1997-02-24 18:26:33Z
created
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description  (of Acanthurus aurolineatus Day, 1876) Day, F. (1876). The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to Inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Part 2: 169-368, Pls. 41-78.
page(s): 204, Pl. 48 (fig. 3) [details]   

original description  (of Chaetodon mata Cuvier, 1829) Cuvier, G. (1829). Le Règne Animal distribué, d'apres son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. <em>Déterville, Paris.</em> Edition 2. v. 2: i-xv + 1-406., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31771348
page(s): 224 [details]   

original description  (of Hepatus weberi Ahl, 1923) Ahl, E. (1923). Ueber eine neue Art der Gattung Hepatus. <em>In: Ichthyologische Mitteilungen, III. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin.</em> 11 (1): 36-37. [details]   

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

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

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. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Description Inhabits steep slopes, often in turbid waters, generally in the vicinity of coral reefs or rocky bottoms. May form aggregations. Feeds on zooplankton. Marketed fresh. Its flesh is almost never poisonous (Ref. 4795). [details]
LanguageName 
English blue-lined surgeonfish  [details]
Japanese ヒラニザ  [details]