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Ocean Surgeon

Acanthurus tractus

Classification

Acanthurus tractus, the five-band surgeonfish, ocean surgeon, or ocean surgeonfish, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Acanthuridae found in the western Atlantic Ocean, Florida, the Bahamas, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Until recently, it was considered a synonym of Acanthurus bahianus, but its status as a separate species was resurrected in 2011. Taxonomy Acanthurus tractus was first formally described in 1860 by the Cuban zoologist Felipe Poey with its type locality given as Cuba.

Distribution

Jeffrey T. Williams · CC0
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 2,171Netherlands · 546France · 544Mexico · 392United Kingdom · 208Cuba · 69