Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Naso annulatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)

pez unicornio, Short-horned unicornfish

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Chordata

Class
Teleostei

Order
Acanthuriformes

Suborder
Acanthuroidei

Family
Acanthuridae

Genus
Naso

Species
annulatus

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Naso herrei Smith, 1966, Priodon annulatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1825, fide Appeltans et al. 2012

Origin: Vagrant

Status

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Indo Pacific

References

  • Acuña-Marrero, D. Salinas, P. (2013.) New record of two Indo-Pacific reef fish, Caranx ignobilis and Naso annulatus, from the Galapagos Islands Marine Biodiversity Records. Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Vol. 6; e74. 1-5 pp.
  • Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
  • Froese, R. Pauly, D. (eds.) (2010) FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org
  • Grove, J.S. Long, D.J., Robertson, D.R. & Victor, B.C. (2022) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 39, 14–22.
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
  • IUCN (2010) IUCN Red List of Threatened Species www.iucnredlist.org

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"Galapagos Species Database, Naso annulatus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=17410. Accessed 1 November 2026.