Blue Tang

Acanthurus coeruleus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Chordata › Perciformes › Acanthuridae

Records by month at ReefSeason sites

Monthly counts appear only where the species made a site's top 25 for that month, so treat them as a lower bound.

Jan
2

Feb
7

Mar
1

Apr
21

May
379

Jun
1674

Jul
1468

Aug
3015

Sep
1724

Oct
307

Nov
372

Dec
35

Where it's recorded

Carysfort Reef (972 records)
Looe Key (918 records)
Molasses Reef (835 records)
Conch Reef (799 records)
Western Sambo (754 records)
French Reef (660 records)
Alligator Reef (627 records)
Davis Reef (605 records)
Key Largo Dry Rocks (Christ of the Abyss) (600 records)
Pickles Reef (533 records)
Sombrero Key (476 records)
Tennessee Reef (468 records)
Cheeca Rocks (397 records)
Sand Key (213 records)
Neptune Memorial Reef (97 records)
USCGC Bibb wreck (51 records)
Blue Heron Bridge (Phil Foster Park) (5 records)

Taxonomy and names: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Occurrence data: GBIF.org, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records only. See each site page for dataset citations. No photo yet: we only show images with a verified open license.