tennentii, Acanthurus Günther [A.] 1861:337 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 3; ref. 1964] Sri Lanka, Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1857.6.13.48 (skin). •Valid as Acanthurus tennentii Günther 1861 [often as tennenti] -- (Randall 1956:205 [ref. 12221], Dor 1984:255 [ref. 29757], Randall 1986:815 [ref. 5706] as tennenti, Winterbottom et al. 1989:63 [ref. 13251], Manilo 1992:23 [133] [ref. 39140], Goren & Dor 1994:68 [ref. 25356] as tennenti, Randall 1995:388 [ref. 22896], Myers 1999:271 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:541 [ref. 24106], Randall et al. 2001:117 [ref. 25316], Kuiter & Debelius 2001:56 [ref. 26232], Allen & Adrim 2003:62 [ref. 26830] as tennenti, Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S120 [ref. 27377], Heemstra et al. 2004:3330 [ref. 27945], Fricke et al. 2009:107 [ref. 30213], Imamura 2009:303 [ref. 30434], Golani & Bogorodsky 2010:82 [ref. 35264], Allen & Erdmann 2012:1025 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:271 [ref. 32706], Carpenter et al. 2017:42 [ref. 35143], Fricke et al. 2018:352 [ref. 35805], Dalleau-Coudert et al. 2019:145 [ref. 40104], Zajonz et al. 2019:98 [ref. 36871], Psomadakis et al. 2020:560 [ref. 37272], Durville et al. 2021:314 [ref. 38802], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:261 [ref. 41223], Randall 2022:228 [ref. 40150], Zajonz et al. 2024:[8] [ref. 41238]). Current status: Valid as Acanthurus tennentii Günther 1861. Acanthuridae. Distribution: Indian Ocean: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Myanmar and western Indonesia. Habitat: marine.