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Taxon: Family Acanthuridae Bonaparte, 1835 - surgeonfishes and unicornfishes (fish)
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Authorship

Unavailable original name & rank:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 16 ("Ordine. Gli Acanturini."). [family, nom. vernac.; published not in latinized form before 1900; not available, Article 11.7.2]. ≡
Original name, rank & spelling:  Bonaparte, 1835: [10].
Source for the authorship:  van der Laan, R., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Fricke, R. 2014. Zootaxa 3882 (2): 125 ("Bonaparte 1835").

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Acanthurinae (Subfamily) Bonaparte, 1835 Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 429. [inferred]
Type: Acanthurus (Genus) Forsskål, 1775 Ref: J.S. Nelson, 2006: 429; [<27 Feb 2024]. [inferred]

Variants

Different rank: Acanthurinae (Subfamily) Bonaparte, 1835

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: doktersvissen
: ledervissen

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: surgeonfishes and unicornfishes Ref: W.N. Eschmeyer, 1998: 2490; ECoF(14 Mar 2025).
: surgeonfishes Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 501.
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