Acanthuroidei

{{Short description|Suborder of fishes}}

{{Automatic_taxobox

| image = Acanthurus leucosternon 01.JPG

| image_caption = Powderblue surgeonfish
Acanthus leucosternon

| image2 = Oniria - Poisson 150.jpg

| image2_caption = Moorish idol
Zanclus cornutus

| taxon = Acanthuroidei

| authority = Greenwood et al, 1966{{cite journal |author=Richard Winterbottom |year=1993 |title=Myological Evidence for the Phylogeny of Recent Genera of Surgeonfishes (Percomorpha, Acanthuridae), with Comments on the Acanthuroidei |journal=Copeia |volume=1993 |issue=1 |pages=21–39 |doi=10.2307/1446292|jstor=1446292 }}

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision = see text

| diversity = 19 genera

}}

Acanthuroidei {{IPAc-en|ə|ˌ|k|æ|n|θ|ə|ˈ|r|ɔɪ|d|iː|aɪ}}, is a group of ray finned fishes which is a suborder of the Acanthuriformes, although older classifications regarded it as a suborder of the Perciformes, the largest order of fish,{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=497–502 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |access-date=2020-12-24 |archive-date=2019-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |url-status=dead }} The suborder includes the surgeonfish and Moorish idol. Members of this suborder have a compressed body covered with small ctenoid scales. The name for the suborder comes from that of the surgeonfish (Acanthuridae) family within it, and is derived from the Greek words akantha and oura, which loosely translate to "thorn" and "tail", respectively, referring to the "scalpels" found on surgeonfishes' caudal peduncle.{{FishBase family|family=Acanthuridae|year=2007|month=February}}

Families

Acanthuroidei contains the following families:

Timeline of genera

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References

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  • {{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |pages=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |access-date=2011-05-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archive-date=2011-07-23 }}

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