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Acanthurus lineatus

Maito Toretore?

Striped Surgeonfish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Striped Surgeonfish, Striped Surgeonfish, Clown Surgeonfish, Zebra Surgeonfish, Bluebanded Surgeonfish; German Blaustreifen-Doktorfish; French Chirurgien Clown, Chirurgien à Lignes Bleues, Chirurgien Zèbre

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Maito Toretore? Maito Pu‘ā? (RR), Api Maka‘a-renga (MG), Maito Rengarenga (AT), Maito Renga (MK), Maito (MT TS TW), Maito Tāravarava (AK), Mā Koyikoyi (PK); Other Polynesian - Maroa (TAH)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Tuamotus, Hawai‘i; n. to s.Japan; s. to New Caledonia

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group and N.Group. PLUS:; Marine, near-shore, outer reef-slope to 5m

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
P	P				P	P

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
	P		P		P

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Acanthurus lineatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
SYNONYMS: Chaetodon lineatus [O]; Ctenodon lineatus; Harpurus lineatus; Hepatus lineatus; Rhombotides lineatus; Teuthis lineatus

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Acanthuroidei; ACANTHURIDAE, Acanthurinae

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: field sightings outer reef-slope to 5m, rare, ID N.Sims (Sims88). Aitutaki: field sightings outer reef-slope to 5m, ID N.Sims (Sims88). Palmerston: Listed (Preston95). Manihiki: field sightings outer reef-slope to 5m, ID N.Sims (Sims88). Pukapuka: fieldspecimen+photo, 2/2004, G.McCormack with ID as Acanthurus lineatus. Suwarrow: field ID N.Sims (Sims88 & EIA99).

References:
text p.245 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 126b Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.422 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.587 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 125-01 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 94-04 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....
Species No. 924 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02

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Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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