#2269 · 🐟 fish

Atlantic Blue Tang

🇳🇱 Caribische doktersvis ·Acanthurus coeruleus

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Brice C. · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © terence zahner · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Brian Gratwicke · CC BY 4.0
4. © Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY 4.0
5. © Brian Gratwicke · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © François Libert · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY 4.0
8. © Daniel Onea · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Daniel Onea · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Acanthurus coeruleus is a surgeonfish found commonly in the Atlantic Ocean. It can grow up to 39 centimetres (15 in) long. Common names include Atlantic blue tang , blue barber , blue doctor , blue doctorfish , blue tang , blue tang surgeonfish , yellow barber , and yellow doctorfish .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 9,160iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
9,160 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider in 1801 (225 years ago).