| Common Name | Used in | Language (Dialect) |
Type | Official Trade Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chirurgien à queue blanche | Maldives | French | Vernacular | No |
| Chirurgien chocolat | Maldives | French | Vernacular | No |
| Chocolate surgeon | South Africa | English | Vernacular | No |
| Chocolate surgeonfish | Maldives | English | Vernacular | No |
| Chocolate surgeonfish | Papua New Guinea | English | Vernacular | No |
| Chocolate surgeonfish | Global | English | FAO old | No |
| Cirurgião chocolate | Mozambique | Portuguese | Vernacular | No |
| Doktorfisch | Maldives | German | Vernacular | No |
| Esengel | Palau | Palauan | Vernacular | No |
| Iga bili igu pura | Solomon Is. | Gela | Vernacular | No |
| Indangan | Philippines | Tagalog | Vernacular | No |
| Kalahandi | India | Maldivian | Vernacular | No |
| Kandu kaalhu | Maldives | English | Vernacular | No |
| Labahita | Philippines | Tagalog | Vernacular | No |
| Maito | Tahiti | Tahitian | Vernacular | No |
| Mwocchon mesániwor | North Marianas | Carolinian (Satawalese) | Vernacular | No |
| Night surgeonfish | Australia | English | Vernacular | No |
| Night surgeonfish | Indonesia | English | Vernacular | No |
| Nyeve | Comoros | Comorian | Vernacular | No |
| Ohagurohagi | Japan | Japanese | Vernacular | No |
| Ohagurohagi | Maldives | Japanese | Vernacular | No |
| Pone-i'usina | Samoa | Samoan | Vernacular | No |
| Sjokolade-doktervis | South Africa | Afrikaans | Vernacular | No |
| Thompson's surgeonfish | Australia | English | Vernacular | No |
| Thompson's surgeonfish | Solomon Is. | English | Vernacular | No |
| Thompson's surgeonfish | Micronesia | English | Vernacular | No |
| Thompson's surgeonfish | Palau | English | Vernacular | No |
| Thompson's surgeonfish | Hawaii | English | Vernacular | No |
| Thompson's tang | Hawaii | English | Aquarium | No |
| Thompsons kirurgfisk | Denmark | Danish | Vernacular | No |
| Whitetail surgeonfish | Christmas I. | English | Vernacular | No |
| Yefal | Micronesia | Carolinian | Vernacular | No |
| 倒吊 | China | Mandarin Chinese | Vernacular | No |
| 粗皮仔 | China | Mandarin Chinese | Vernacular | No |
| 黃尾刺尾魚 | China | Mandarin Chinese | Vernacular | No |
| 黃尾棘尾鯛 | Chinese Taipei | Mandarin Chinese | Vernacular | No |
| 黄尾刺尾鱼 | China | Mandarin Chinese | Vernacular | No |
| 黄尾棘尾鲷 | China | Mandarin Chinese | Vernacular | No |