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List of marine bony fishes of South Africa

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This is a sublist of the List of marine fishes of South Africa for bony fishes recorded from the oceans bordering South Africa. This list comprises locally used common names, scientific names with author citation and recorded ranges. Ranges specified may not be the entire known range for the species, but should include the known range within the waters surrounding the Republic of South Africa. List ordering and taxonomy complies where possible with the current usage in World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), and may differ from the cited source, as listed citations are primarily for range or existence of records for the region. Sub-taxa within any given taxon are arranged alphabetically as a general rule. Details of each species may be available through the relevant internal links. Synonyms should be listed where relevant. Osteichthyes ( ost-ee-IK-theez; from Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon) 'bone' and ἰχθύς (ikhthús) 'fish'), also known as osteichthyans or commonly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse clade of vertebrate animals that have endoskeletons primarily composed of bone tissue, encompassing both the conventional bony fishes and, in a cladistic sense, all tetrapods, including mammals and reptiles. They can be contrasted with the Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) and the extinct placoderms and acanthodians, which have endoskeletons primarily composed of cartilage. The vast majority of extant fish are members of Osteichthyes, being an extremely diverse and abundant group consisting of 45 orders, over 435 families and 28,000 species. (Full article...)

Parvphylum Osteichthyes – Bony fishes All entries in this list are included in this infraphylum of Gnathostomata. There are two gigaclasses represented: Actinopterygii and Sarcopterygii.

Gigaclass Actinopterygii – Ray-finned fishes

Class Teleostei

Order Acanthuriformes Family: Acanthuridae – Surgeonfishes and unicornfishes.

Tailring surgeon, Acanthurus blochii Valenciennes, 1835 (Indo-Pacific south to Durban) Pencilled surgeon, Acanthurus dussumieri Valenciennes, 1835 (Port Alfred to Mozambique)(Algoa Bay to western Pacific) Powder-blue surgeonfish, Acanthurus leucosternon Bennett, 1832 (Sodwana Bay to Indonesia) Bluebanded surgeon, Acanthurus lineatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Indo-Pacific south to Durban) Elongate surgeon, Acanthurus mata (Cuvier, 1829) (Indo-Pacific south to Durban) Epaulette surgeon, Acanthurus nigricauda Duncker and Mohr, 1929 (Indo-Pacific south to Durban) Brown surgeon, Acanthurus nigrofuscus (Forsskål, 1775) (Indo-Pacific south to Coffee Bay) Lieutenant surgeonfish, doubleband surgeonfish, Acanthurus tennentii Günther, 1861 (Western Indian Ocean from Natal to Sri Lanka) Chocolate surgeon, Acanthurus thompsoni (Fowler, 1923) (Indo-Pacific south to Sodwana Bay) Convict surgeon, Acanthurus triostegus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Indo-Pacific south to Bashee River, with postlarvae as far as Algoa Bay) Yellowfin surgeon, Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835 (Durban to eastern Pacific) Twospot bristletooth, Ctenochaetus binotatus Randall, 1955 (Indo-Pacific south to Natal) Striped bristletooth, Ctenochaetus striatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) (Indo-Pacific south to Natal) Spotted bristletooth, Ctenochaetus strigosus (Bennett, 1828) (Indo-Pacific south to Natal) Whitemargin unicornfish, Naso annulatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) Humpback unicorn, Naso brachycentron (Valenciennes, 1835) (Indo-Pacific south to Natal) Spotted unicorn, Naso brevirostris (Valenciennes, 1835) (Indo-Pacific south to Durban, with juveniles drifting to Algoa Bay) Orange-spine unicorn, Naso lituratus (Forster, 1801) (Indo-Pacific south to Durban) Humpnose unicorn, Naso tuberosus Lacepède 1802 (Natal to Gilbert Islands) Bluespine unicornfish, Naso unicornis (Forsskål, 1775) (Indo-Pacific south to Natal) Bignose unicorn, Naso vlamingii (Valenciennes, 1835) (Indo-Pacific south to Natal) Palette surgeon, Paracanthurus hepatus (Natal to central Pacific) Spotted tang, Zebrasoma gemmatum (Valenciennes, 1835) (Mauritius, Madagascar, Sodwana Bay and 3 specimens from Durban) Twotone tang, Zebrasoma scopas (Cuvier, 1829) (Indo-Pacific south to Natal) Sailfin tang, Zebrasoma velifer (Bloch, 1797) (Indo-Pacific south to Natal) Family: Antigoniidae – Boarfishes

Boarfish, Antigonia rubescens (Günther, 1860) (Indo-West Pacific from Natal to Japan) Family: Chaetodontidae – Butterflyfishes

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