Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 208

Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835 .

Purple Surgeonfish, Yellowfin Surgeonfish,or Yellow-masked Surgeon. To 70 cm (27.6 in) TL ( Robertson and Allen 2002). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Japan (Shimada in Nakabo 2002); Palos Verdes, southern California (Bill Power, pers. comm. to M.L.); Gulf of California (Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995) to Ecuador ( Béarez 1996), including tip of Baja California (Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters ( Koeda et al. 2016); depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 148 m (3–485 ft) (min.: Arndt and Fricke 2019; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019).