Edit the description's bibliography (Lizard Island Field Guide)

Edit the description's bibliography


Animalia: Dusky Surgeonfish (species: Acanthurus nigrofuscus)

References that assist with identification

  • Allen, G., R. Steene, P. Humann and N. Deloach (2003). Reef fish identification: Tropical Pacific New World Publications Inc., Jacksonville, FL, USA.

Other references

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  • Bellwood, D.R. and C.J. Fulton (2008). Sediment-mediated suppression of herbivory on coral reefs: decreasing resilience to rising sea levels and climate change? Limnology and Oceanography, 53: 2695-2701. LIRS catalog number 1259.
  • Binning, S.A. (2014). The effects of biotic and abiotic factors on fish swimming performance. PhD thesis, Australian National University. LIRS catalog number 1769.
  • Binning, S.A. and D.G. Roche (2015). Water flow and fin shape polymorphism in coral reef fishes, Ecology, 96(3): 828-839. LIRS catalog number 2050.
  • Brandl, S.J., A.S. Hoey and D.R. Bellwood (2013). Micro-topography mediates interactions between corals, algae, and herbivorous fishes on coral reefs. Coral Reefs, DOI 10.1007/s00338-013-1110-5. LIRS catalog number 1706.
  • Brandl, S.J., W.D. Robbins and D.R. Bellwood (2015). Exploring the nature of ecological specialization in a coral reef fish community: morphology, diet and foraging microhabitat use, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 282: 20151147, doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1147. LIRS catalog number 1908.
  • Brandl, S.J. and D.R. Bellwood (2013). Morphology, sociality, and ecology: can morphology predict pairing behavior in coral reef fishes? Coral Reefs, 32: 835-836. LIRS catalog number 1718.
  • Brandl, S.J. and D.R. Bellwood (2014). Individual-based analyses reveal limited functional overlap in a coral reef fish community, Journal of Animal Ecology, 83: 661-670. LIRS catalog number 2063.
  • Ceccarelli, D.M., M.J. Emslie and Z.T. Richards (2016). Post-disturbance stability of fish assemblages measured at coarse taxonomic resolution masks change at finer scales. PLOS One, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0156232. LIRS catalog number 1971.
  • Choat, J.H. and D.R. Bellwood (1985). Interactions amongst herbivorous fishes on a coral reef: influence of spatial variation, Marine Biology, 89: 221-234. LIRS catalog number 213.
  • Clements, K.D. (1991). Gut microorganisms of surgeonfishes (Family Acanthuridae), Ph.D. thesis, James Cook University, Townsville. LIRS catalog number 321.
  • Clements, K.D. (1997). Fermentation and gastrointestinal microorganisms in fishes in: Gastrointestinal microbiology: Vol. 1: Gastrointestinal ecosystems and fermentations. Eds. R.I. Mackie and B.A. White. Chapman and Hall, New York, pp. 156-198. LIRS catalog number 491.
  • Clements, K.D. and S. Bullivant (1991). An unusual symbiont from the gut of surgeonfishes may be the largest known prokaryote, Journal of Bacteriology, 173(17): 5359-5362. LIRS catalog number 313.
  • Clements, K.D. and J.H. Choat (1995). Fermentation in tropical marine herbivorous fishes, Physiological Zoology, 68(3): 355-378. LIRS catalog number 454.
  • Clements, K.D., D.P. German, J. Piche, A. Tribollet and J.H. Choat (2016). Integrating ecological roles and trophic diversification on coral reefs: multiple lines of evidence identify parrotfishes as microphages, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2016. LIRS catalog number 2056.
  • Clements, K.D., G.R. Russ, D. McB. Williams and A.M. Ayling (1988). A species list of the family Acanthuridae (Pisces) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, with notes on latitudinal distribution patterns,manuscript only. LIRS catalog number 242.
  • Cribb, T.H., R.A. Bray, K.A. Hall and S.C. Cutmore (2015). A review of the genus Antorchis Linton, 1911 (Trematoda: Faustulidae) from Indo-Pacific fishes with the description of a new species, Systematic Parasitology, 92: 1-11. LIRS catalog number 1909.
  • Crook, A.C. (1997). Behavioural patterns and the significance of colour patterns in reef fishes of the family Scaridae, Ph.D. thesis, James Cook University, Townsville. LIRS catalog number 531.
  • Crook, A.C. (1999). A quantitative analysis of the relationship between interspecific encounters, schooling behaviour and colouration in juvenile parrotfish (family Scaridae), Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology, 33: 1-19. LIRS catalog number 755.
  • Eros, C.M. (1996). Acoustic repertoire in the territorial and courtship behaviour of Stegastes apicalis (Pomacentridae), M.Sc. thesis, James Cook University, Townsville. LIRS catalog number 497.
  • Fisher, R. (2005). Swimming speeds of larval coral reef fishes: impacts on self-recruitment and dispersal, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 285: 223-232. LIRS catalog number 1162.
  • Fox, R.J. (2012). The trophic and spatial ecology of rabbitfishes (Perciformes, Siganidae) on coral reefs, PhD thesis, James Cook University. LIRS catalog number 1608.
  • Fox, R.J. and D.R. Bellwood (2012). Niche partitioning of feeding microhabitats produces a unique function for herbivorous rabbitfishes (Perciformes, Siganidae) on coral reefs. Coral Reefs, doi: 10.1007/s00338-012-0945-5. LIRS catalog number 1581.
  • Fulton, C.J. (2005). Wave energy and the role of swimming in reef fish ecology, Ph.D. thesis, James Cook University. LIRS catalog number 952.
  • Fulton, C.J. (2010). Chapter 12: The role of swimming in reef fish ecology in: Fish locomotion: an eco-ethological perspective. Domenici, P. and B.G. Kapoor (Eds.). Science Publishers, Enfield, NH, USA, pp. 374-406. LIRS catalog number 1308.
  • Goatley, C.H.R, S. Wroe, S.B. Tebbett and D.R. Bellwood (2018). An evaluation of a double‐tailed deformity in a coral‐reef surgeonfish Acanthurus nigrofuscus (Acanthuridae) using micro‐computed tomography. Journal of Fish Biology, 92: 1645-1650. LIRS catalog number 2236.
  • Graba-Landry, A. (2020). The effect of increasing temperature on algae-fish interactions on coral reefs. PhD thesis, James Cook University. LIRS catalog number 2468.
  • Grutter, A.S. (1997). Effect of the removal of cleaner fish on the abundance and species composition of reef fish, Oecologia, 111: 137-143. LIRS catalog number 504.
  • Hall, K.A. and T.H. Cribb (2004). Ptychogyliauchen, a new genus of Gyliauchenidae (Platyhelminthes: Digenea) from siganid fishes of the Indo-West Pacific, Invertebrate Systematics, 18: 607-625. LIRS catalog number 1011.
  • Heatwole, S.J. and C.J. Fulton (2012). Behavioural flexibility in reef fishes responding to a rapidly changing wave environment. Marine Biology, doi: 10.1007/s00227-012-2123-2. LIRS catalog number 1586.
  • Hoey, A.S. (2010). The ecosystem role of macroalgal browsing fishes on coral reefs. PhD thesis, James Cook University. LIRS catalog number 1415.
  • Klanten, S.O. (1998). Does morphology predict ecology in coral reef fishes? Honours thesis, James Cook University, Townsville. LIRS catalog number 625.
  • Klanten, S.O. (2003). Molecular phylogeny, temporal patterns of lineage diversification and phylogeography of the surgeonfish genus Naso (Acanthuridae), Ph.D. thesis, James Cook University. LIRS catalog number 860.
  • Klanten, L. van Herwerden, J.H. Choat and D. Blair, S. (2004). Patterns of lineage diversification in the genus Naso (Acanthuridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 32: 221-235. LIRS catalog number 1680.
  • Leis, J.M., B.M. Carson-Ewart and J. Webley (2002). Settlement behaviour of coral-reef fish larvae at subsurface artificial-reef moorings, Marine and Freshwater Research, 53: 319-327. LIRS catalog number 720.
  • McCormick, M.I. (1994). Comparison of field methods for measuring surface topography and their associations with a tropical reef fish assemblage, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 112: 87-96. LIRS catalog number 723.
  • Montgomery, W.L. (1988). Gut microbes, fat storage and gonadal development in surgeonfishes (Teleostei: Acanthuridae),Unpublished report. LIRS catalog number 243.
  • Nash, K.L., N.A.J. Graham and D.R. Bellwood (2013). Fish foraging patterns, vulnerability to fishing, and implications for the management of ecosystem function across scales. Ecological Applications, 23: 1632-1644. LIRS catalog number 1734.
  • Pink, J.R. and C.J. Fulton (2014). Right tools for the task: intraspecific modality in the swimming behaviour of coral reef fishes, Marine Biology, 161: 1103-1111. LIRS catalog number 1788.
  • Pink, J.R. and C.J. Fulton (2015). Fin spotting: efficacy of manual and video-based visual assessments of reef fish swimming behaviour, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 465: 92-98. LIRS catalog number 1883.
  • Purcell, S.W. and D.R. Bellwood (1993). A functional analysis of food procurement in two surgeonfish species, Acanthurus nigrofuscus and Ctenochaetus striatus (Acanthuridae), Environmental Biology of Fishes, 37: 139-159. LIRS catalog number 373.
  • Richardson, L.E., N.A.J. Graham, M.S. Pratchett, J.G. Eurich and A.S. Hoey (2018). Mass coral bleaching causes biotic homogeniszation of reef fish assemblages. Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/gcb.14119. LIRS catalog number 2200.
  • Robertson, D.R. (1983). On the spawning behavior and spawning cycles of eight surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae) from the Indo-Pacific, Environmental Biology of Fishes, 9(3/4): 193-223. LIRS catalog number 54.
  • Smit, N.J., A.S. Grutter, R.D. Adlard and A.J. Davies (2006). Hematozoa of teleosts from Lizard Island, Australia, with some comments on their possible mode of transmission and the description of a new hemogregarine species, Journal of Parasitology, 92: 778-788. LIRS catalog number 991.
  • Streit, R.P., G.S. Cumming and D.R. Bellwood (2019). Patchy delivery of functions undermines functional redundancy in a high diversity system. Functional Ecology, 33: 1144-1155. LIRS catalog number 2303.
  • Sutton, D.C. and K.D. Clements (1988). Aerobic heterotrophic gastrointestinal microflora of tropical marine fishes, "Proceedings of the Sixth International Coral Reef Symposium".3,Australia, : 185-190. LIRS catalog number 267.
  • Syms, C. (1998). Disturbance and the structure of coral reef fish communities on the reef slope, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 230: 151-167. LIRS catalog number 556.
  • Tebbett, S.B., C.H.R. Goatley and D.R. Bellwood (2017). Clarifying functional roles: algal removal by the surgeonfishes Ctenochaetus striatus and Acanthurus nigrofuscus, Coral Reefs, 36: 803-813. LIRS catalog number 2120.
  • Tebbett, S.B., C.H.R. Goatley and D.R. Bellwood (2017). The effects of algal turf sediments and organic loads on feeding by coral reef surgeonfishes. PLOS One, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0169479. LIRS catalog number 2073.
  • Vail, A.L. (2009). Risk assessment by settlement-stage reef fish and non-lethal effects of predators, Honours thesis, James Cook University. LIRS catalog number 1316.
  • Vail, A.L. and M.I. McCormick (2011). Metamorphosing reef fishes avoid predator scent when choosing a home. Biology Letters, doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0380. LIRS catalog number 1408.
  • Wilson, D.T. (1995). The formation and ultrastructure of otolith settlement marks within a number of reef fish species, Honours thesis, James Cook University, Townsville. LIRS catalog number 467.
  • Wilson, D.T. and M.I. McCormick (1999). Microstructure of settlement-marks in the otoliths of tropical reef fishes, Marine Biology, 134: 29-41. LIRS catalog number 596.