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Acanthurus hirudo    !
Synonym for Acanthurus triostegus (Linnaeus, 1758)

  Original name  
  Check ECoF  
  Current accepted name  
No
  Status  
Synonym
  Status details  
junior synonym, original combination, misspelling
  Status ref.  
  Comment  
Author Ref: 1924. Year from Eschmeyer (CofF ver. May 2005: Ref. 54621). This is the spelling in the 2nd edition (1834) that Randall (1956) recorded, that may have changed from hiru*n*do in the first edition dated 1829 (see dates in CofF).
  Etymology of generic noun  
Greek, akantha = thorn + Greek, oura = tail (Ref. 45335).
  Link to references  
References using the name as accepted
  Link to other databases  
ITIS TSN : None | Catalogue of Life | ZooBank | WoRMS
! - Marks misspellings of the species names that must not be used.