Acanthurini is a tribe of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Acanthuridae and it is one of three tribes in the subfamily Acanthurinae.
Etymology
The tribe name comes from Ancient Greekἄκανθα (ákantha), meaning "spine", and οὐρά (ourá), meaning "tail", a reference to the scalpel-like bony plates on the type species' caudal peduncle. ==Taxonomy==
Taxonomy
Acanthurini was first proposed as a taxon in 1839 by the French naturalistCharles Lucien Bonaparte These tribes make up the subfamily Acanthurinae which with the subfamily Nasinae make up the family Acanthuridae. ==Genera==