Naso unicornis

Naso unicornis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Acanthuroidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Eupercaria Ordo: Acanthuriformes Subordo: Acanthuroidei

Familia: Acanthuridae
Genus: Naso
Species: Naso unicornis

Name

Naso unicornis (Forsskål, 1775)

• Lectotype: whereabouts unknown.
  • Lectotype designated by Fricke (1999:549) as the specimen illustrated in Forsskål (1776, Pl. 23), as reproduced by Klausewitz & Nielsen (1965, fig. 3)).

Type locality: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea.

Synonyms

• Chaetodon unicornis Forsskål, 1775
• Monoceros biaculeatus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
• Naso fronticornis Lacepède, 1801
• Harpurus monoceros Forster in Lichtenstein, 1844
• Acronurus corniger Gronow in Gray, 1854

References

• Forsskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit. Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Ex Officina Mölleri: Hauniae [=Copenhagen]. 1–20 + i–xxxiv + 1–164 + 1 map. BHL Reference page. 
• Fricke, R. 1999. Fishes of the Mascarene Islands (Réunion, Mauritius, Rodriguez). An annotated checklist with descriptions of new species. [Theses Zoologicae v. 31.] Koenigstein (Koeltz Scientific Books). i–viii + 1–759. Reference page. 
• Klausewitz, W. & Nielsen, J.G. 1965. On Forsskål's collection of fishes in the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen, Københavns universitet. Zoologisk museum. Spolia zoologica Musei Hauniensis 22. 29 pp., 38 pl. Reference page. 

Links

• Naso unicornis in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Naso unicornis in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Vernacular names

English: Bluespine unicornfish
français: Nason
magyar: Egyszarvú hal

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