Acanthurini
Acanthurus lineatus
Ctenochaetus strigosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acanthuriformes
Family: Acanthuridae
Subfamily: Acanthurinae
Tribe: Acanthurini
Bonaparte, 1839[1]
Genera

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Acanthurini is a tribe of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Acanthuridae and it is one of three tribes in the subfamily Acanthurinae.

Taxonomy

Acanthurini was first proposed as a taxon in 1839 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte[1] and in 1993 it was delineated by the American ichthyologist Richard Winterbottom as consisting of the two genera Acanthurus and Ctaenochaetus, alongside the monotypic tribe Prionurini and with the remaining two Acanthurine genera, Zebrasoma and Paracanthurus, being classified in the tribe Zebrasomini.[2] These tribes make up the subfamily Acanthurinae which with the subfamily Nasinae make up the family Acanthuridae.[3]

Genera

There are two genera within the tribe Acanthurini:[3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 Samuel Hubbard Scudder (1884). "Nomenclator Zoologicus: An Alphabetical List of All Generic Names that Have Been Employed by Naturalists for Recent and Fossil Animals from the Earliest Times to the Close of the Year 1879". Bulletin (United States National Museum) (19).
  2. ↑ Richard Winterbottom (1993). "Myological Evidence for the Phylogeny of Recent Genera of Surgeonfishes (Percomorpha, Acanthuridae), with Comments on the Acanthuroidei". Copeia. 1993 (1): 21–39.
  3. 1 2 J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 497–502. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
  4. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Acanthuridae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
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