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#2377 · 🐟 fish

Hawaiian Convict Surgeonfish

Acanthurus sandvicensis

🐟 Fish 📍 outside Europe
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Craig Fujii · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  2. 2. © Brocken Inaglory · CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. 3. © Don Loarie · CC BY 4.0
  4. 4. © BJ Stacey · CC BY-NC 4.0
  5. 5. © ShotMagnet · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  6. 6. © James Shelton · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  7. 7. © pittatours · CC BY-NC 4.0
  8. 8. © Thomas Shahan · CC BY-NC 4.0
Hawaiian Convict Surgeonfish, photo 1 of 8
1/8 © Craig Fujii · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 3,698iNaturalist observations

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.
  • 3,698 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
Hawaiian Convict Surgeonfish
scientific name
Acanthurus sandvicensis
class
Actinopterygii
order
Acanthuriformes
family
Acanthuridae
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
3,698
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

relatives· Acanthuridae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1315888. Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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