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Thompson's Surgeonfish

Acanthurus thompsoni

Classification

Acanthurus thompsoni, the night surgeonfish, chocolate surgeonfish, Thompson's surgeonfish, Thompson's tang or whitetail surgeonfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acanthuridae which includes the surgeonfishes, unicornfishes and tangs. This species has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution. Taxonomy Acanthurus thompsoni was first formalled described in 1923 as Hepatus thompsoni by the American zoologist Henry Weed Fowler with its type locality given as Oahu in Hawaii.

Distribution

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