# Acanthurini

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{{Short description|Tribe of fishes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Acanthurus lineatus Reunion.jpg
| image_caption = ''[Acanthurus lineatus](/source/Acanthurus_lineatus)''
| image2 = Ctenochaetus strigosus 1.jpg
| image2_caption = ''[Ctenochaetus strigosus](/source/Ctenochaetus_strigosus)''
| taxon = Acanthurini
| authority = [Bonaparte](/source/Charles_Lucien_Bonaparte), 1839<ref name  = Scudder>{{cite journal |author=[Samuel Hubbard Scudder](/source/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](/source/Acanthurus_triostegus)
| type_species_authority = ([Linnaeus](/source/Carl_Linnaeus), [1758](/source/10th_edition_of_Systema_Naturae))
}}
'''Acanthurini''' is a [tribe](/source/Tribe_(biology)) of marine [ray-finned fish](/source/ray-finned_fish)es belonging to the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Acanthuridae](/source/Acanthuridae) and it is one of three tribes in the [subfamily](/source/subfamily) [Acanthurinae](/source/Acanthurinae).

== Etymology ==
The tribe name comes from [Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek) ἄκανθα (''ákantha''), meaning "spine", and οὐρά (''ourá''), meaning "tail", a reference to the scalpel-like bony plates on the [type species](/source/type_species)' [caudal peduncle](/source/caudal_peduncle).

==Taxonomy==
Acanthurini was first proposed as a taxon in 1839 by the French [naturalist](/source/naturalist) [Charles Lucien Bonaparte](/source/Charles_Lucien_Bonaparte)<ref name  = Scudder/> and in 1993 it was delineated by the American [ichthyologist](/source/ichthyologist) [Richard Winterbottom](/source/Richard_Winterbottom_(ichthyologist)) as consisting of the two genera ''Acanthurus'' and ''Ctaenochaetus'', alongside the [monotypic](/source/Monotypic_taxon) tribe [Prionurini](/source/Prionurus) and with the remaining two [Acanthurine](/source/Acanthurinae) genera, ''[Zebrasoma](/source/Zebrasoma)'' and ''[Paracanthurus](/source/Paracanthurus)'', being classified in the tribe [Zebrasomini](/source/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](/source/Naso_(fish)) 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](/source/Acanthurus)'' <small>[Forsskål](/source/Peter_Forssk%C3%A5l) 1775</small>
* ''[Ctenochaetus](/source/Ctenochaetus)'' <small>[Gill](/source/Theodore_Gill), 1884</small>

==References==
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Category:Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Category:Acanthurinae
Category:Acanthurini
Category:Fish tribes

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