Species Acanthurus maculiceps (Ahl, 1923)
Spotted-face Surgeonfish, Earbar Surgeonfish, Spot-face Surgeon
- Hepatus maculiceps Ahl, E. 1923. Ichthyologische Mitteilungen 3. Ueber eine neue Art der Gattung Hepatus. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 11: 36-37 [36].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB 20366, Talassia, New Britain.
Generic Combinations
- Acanthurus maculiceps (Ahl, 1923). —
de Beaufort, L.F. & Chapman, W.M. 1951. The Fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Percomorphi (concluded), Blennoidea. Leiden : Brill Vol. 9 484 pp. 89 figs. [152]
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Northern Great Barrier Reef (14°38'S) and Coringa-Herald Cay and Lihou Reef, Coral Sea, also Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands; tropical, west-central Pacific.
IMCRA
Northeast Province (18), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Distribution References
- Allen, G.R. & Smith-Vaniz, W.F. 1994. Fishes of Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 412: 1-21 [17]
- Oxley, W.G., Ayling, A.M., Cheal, A.J. & Thompson, A.A. 2003. Marine surveys undertaken in the Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve, March-April 2003. Townsville : Australian Institute of Marine Science 59 pp. [40]
- Oxley, W.G., Emslie, M., Muir, P. & Thompson, A.A. 2004. Marine surveys undertaken in the Lihou Reef National Nature Reserve, March 2004. Townsville : Australian Institute of Marine Science i-vii, 1-67 pp. [53]
Ecological Descriptors
Coral reef, inshore, marine.
Extra Ecological Information
1-15 m.
General References
Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp. [1022] (Vol III)
Clements, K.D. & Randall, J.E. 1996. Four new records of surgeonfishes (Perciformes: Acanthuridae) from the Great Barrier Reef. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39(2): 339-342 [339]
Randall, J.E. 1956. A revision of the surgeon fish genus Acanthurus. Pacific Science 10(2): 159-235 figs 1-23 pls 1-3 [209]
Common Name References
Allen, G.R. & Steene, R.C. 1988. Fishes of Christmas Island Indian Ocean. Christmas Island : Christmas Island Natural History Association 197 pp. [147] (Earbar Surgeonfish)
Kuiter, R.H. 1992. Tropical Reef-Fishes of the Western Pacific, Indonesia and Adjacent Waters. Jakarta : PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama 314 pp. pls. [256] (Spot-face Surgeon)
Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 557 pp. figs. [538] (Spotted-face Surgeonfish)
Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Spotted-face Surgeonfish)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 11-Jun-2013 | 11-Jun-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |