Acanthurus (subgenus of Chaetodon) Forsskål [P. S.] in Niebuhr 1775:59 Masc. Teuthis hepatus Linnaeus 1766. Type by subsequent designation. Authorship according to Fricke 2008:54 [ref. 30182]. Type designated by Desmarest 1856:246 [ref. 17401] -- see Whitley 1939:224 [ref. 25866] but Whitley has wrong date for Desmarest. Acanthura is a misspelling. See Kottelat (2013) for problems with the type species. •Valid as Acanthurus Forsskål 1775 -- (Randall 1956:166 [ref. 12221], Desoutter 1973:455 [ref. 7203], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1975:235 [ref. 7348], Leis & Richards 1984:548 [ref. 13669], Kishimoto Pin Masuda et al. 1984:230 [ref. 6441], Desoutter in Whitehead et al. 1986:962 [ref. 13676], Randall 1986:812 [ref. 5706], Allen & Ayling 1987 [ref. 13388], Tyler et al. 1989:37 [ref. 13460], Blot & Tyler 1990:18 [ref. 19415], Winterbottom 1993:36 [ref. 20307], Guiasu & Winterbottom 1993:300 [ref. 21023], Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999:458 [ref. 24550], Kuiter & Debelius 2001:19 [ref. 26232], Randall 2001:3655 [ref. 26301], Randall 2003:1802 [ref. 27098], Allen et al. 2006:1733 [ref. 29094], Craig 2008:65 [ref. 29767], Fricke 2008:54 [ref. 30182], Randall et al. 2011:265 [ref. 31249], Bernal & Rocha 2011:63 [ref. 31336], Kottelat 2013:441 [ref. 32989], Parin et al. 2014:507 [ref. 33547], Fricke et al. 2015:10 [ref. 33930], Struthers 2015:1592 [ref. 34302], Carpenter et al. 2017:33 [ref. 35143], Motomura et al. 2017:205 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:351 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:166 [ref. 36273], Brown et al. 2019:180 [ref. 36444], Fricke et al. 2019:299 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Acanthurus Forsskål 1775. Acanthuridae.