Ring-tailed Surgeonfish
Acanthurus xanthopterus
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Acanthuriformes
- Family
- Acanthuridae
- Genus
- Acanthurus
Where to Find
Found in 49 diving areas across 32 countries and 8 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 8 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 14 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 96 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 292 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 292 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 1 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 5 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 9 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 23 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 90 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 36 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 59 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 74 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 49 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 4 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 7 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 52 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 20 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 19 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 20 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 12 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 20 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 2 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 5 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 7 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 4 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 3 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 5 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 3 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 20 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 7 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 131 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 6 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 7 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 25 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 40 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 11 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 7 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 13 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 2 records