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Acanthuridae
convict surgeonfish
Acanthurus triostegus
Convict stripes in black and white across the Indo Pacific
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- Deep-bodied
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
Central America and the Caribbean
Deep-bodied
Mediumconvict surgeonfish is known from Indo-Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Acanthuridae
- Genus
- Acanthurus
- Maximum length
- 27 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: throughout the region except for the seas around the Arabian Peninsula. Eastern Pacific: lower Gulf of California to Panama, including the Revillagigedo, Cocos, Clipperton, and Galapagos islands.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
