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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Ray-finned Fishes
  5. Butterflyfishes, Angelfishes, and Allies
  6. Surgeonfishes, Tangs, and Unicornfishes
  7. Common Surgeonfishes

genus

Common Surgeonfishes

Acanthurus

Includes
6 native 12 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children 24 of 27

  • Convict Surgeonfishes 1 native
  • Atlantic Blue Tang presumed native
  • Caribbean Ocean Surgeonfish presumed native
  • Dusky Surgeonfish native
  • Striped Surgeonfish present
  • Yellowfin Surgeonfish present
  • Orangeblotch Surgeonfish present
  • Doctorfish presumed native
  • Whitecheek Surgeonfish present
  • Powder Blue Tang present
  • Eyestripe Surgeonfish present
  • Dark Surgeonfish native
  • Sohal Surgeonfish
  • Eyeline Surgeonfish present
  • Mimic Surgeonfish present
  • Yellowmask Surgeonfish present
  • Whitebar Surgeonfish present
  • Whitespotted Surgeonfish present
  • Achilles Tang present
  • Whitetail Surgeonfish present
  • Lieutenant Surgeonfish
  • Japan Surgeonfish
  • Blueline Surgeonfish present
  • Eyespot Surgeonfish

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native common surgeonfishes All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Dusky Surgeonfish Acanthurus nigrofuscus 4,087 observations
  • Hawaiian Convict Surgeonfish Acanthurus sandvicensis 3,662 observations
  • Dark Surgeonfish Acanthurus blochii 1,658 observations

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