{{Short description|Tribe of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Acanthurus lineatus Reunion.jpg | image_caption = ''Acanthurus lineatus'' | image2 = Ctenochaetus strigosus 1.jpg | image2_caption = ''Ctenochaetus strigosus'' | taxon = Acanthurini | authority = Bonaparte, 1839<ref name = Scudder>{{cite journal |author=Samuel Hubbard Scudder |year=1884 |title=Nomenclator Zoologicus: An Alphabetical List of All Generic Names that Have Been Employed by Naturalists for Recent and Fossil Animals from the Earliest Times to the Close of the Year 1879 |journal=Bulletin of the United States National Museum |issue=19 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/15892#page/411/mode/1up}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = see text | type_species = Acanthurus triostegus | type_species_authority = (Linnaeus, 1758) }} '''Acanthurini''' is a tribe of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Acanthuridae and it is one of three tribes in the subfamily Acanthurinae.
== Etymology == The tribe name comes from Ancient Greek ἄκανθα (''ákantha''), meaning "spine", and οὐρά (''ourá''), meaning "tail", a reference to the scalpel-like bony plates on the type species' caudal peduncle.
==Taxonomy== Acanthurini was first proposed as a taxon in 1839 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte<ref name = Scudder/> and in 1993 it was delineated by the American ichthyologist Richard Winterbottom as consisting of the two genera ''Acanthurus'' and ''Ctaenochaetus'', alongside the monotypic tribe Prionurini and with the remaining two Acanthurine genera, ''Zebrasoma'' and ''Paracanthurus'', being classified in the tribe Zebrasomini.<ref name = WInterbottom>{{cite journal|author=Richard Winterbottom |year=1993 |title=Myological Evidence for the Phylogeny of Recent Genera of Surgeonfishes (Percomorpha, Acanthuridae), with Comments on the Acanthuroidei |journal=Copeia |volume=1993 |issue=1 |pages=21–39|doi=10.2307/1446292 |jstor=1446292 }}</ref> These tribes make up the subfamily Acanthurinae which with the subfamily Nasinae make up the family Acanthuridae.<ref name = Nelson5/>
==Genera== There are two genera within the tribe Acanthurini:<ref name = Nelson5>{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=497–502 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6}}</ref><ref name = CofF>{{Cof family|family=Acanthuridae|access-date=22 August 2023}}</ref> * ''Acanthurus'' <small>Forsskål 1775</small> * ''Ctenochaetus'' <small>Gill, 1884</small>
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Category:Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte Category:Acanthurinae Category:Acanthurini Category:Fish tribes