Chaetodontoplus

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Chaetodontoplus
Bluestriped angelfish Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis Side 1883px.jpg
Bluestriped angelfish
Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Pomacanthidae
Genus: Chaetodontoplus
Bleeker, 1876
Type species
Holacanthus septentrionalis
Temminck & Schlegel 1844
Species

15, see text.

Chaetodontoplus is a genus of marine angelfishes in the family Pomacanthidae. The are found in the Indo-Pacific region.

Species[]

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
Chaetodontoplus ballinae Whitley, 1959. Ballina angelfish Southwest Pacific: known only from off Ballina, New South Wales, Australia.
Chaetodontoplus caeruleopunctatus.jpg Chaetodontoplus caeruleopunctatus & , 1976. Bluespotted angelfish Western-Pacific Ocean
& Lim, 1975 Southern Japan and Taiwan
AkaneKDburi.jpg Chaetodontoplus chrysocephalus (Bleeker, 1855). Western Pacific from Japan to Indonesia
(Waite, 1900). Australia, New Caledonia
(Bleeker, 1860). Western Central Pacific: Indonesia.
Chaetodontoplus duboulayi.jpg Chaetodontoplus duboulayi (Günther, 1867). Scribbled angelfish Indo-West Pacific Ocean
KiheriKD.jpg Chaetodontoplus melanosoma (Bleeker, 1853). Black-velvet angelfish Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malayan region and New Guinea , northward to southern Japan.
Chaetodontoplus meredithi Kuiter.jpg Chaetodontoplus meredithii Kuiter, 1989. Queensland yellowtail angelfish,

False personifer angelfish

Australia
Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus (Bloch, 1787).jpg Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus (Bloch, 1787). Vermiculated angelfish Indo-West Pacific: Japan to Indonesia, Sri Lanka and east to Papua New Guinea
Chan, 1966. Black angelfish Western Pacific: Japan and the South China Sea.
(McCulloch, 1914). True personifer angelfish Indo-West Pacific: northwest Australia to Taiwan.
Chaeotodontoplus poliourus.jpg Chaetodontoplus poliourus Randall & Rocha, 2009[1] Western Pacific: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Palau and Indonesia
Bluestriped angelfish Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis Side 1883px.jpg Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844). Bluestriped angelfish coastal waters of China, southern Japan, and southern Korea
Allen & , 2004 Vanderloos angelfish Papua New Guinea

References[]

  1. ^ John E. Randall and Luiz A. Rocha (2009). "Chaetodontoplus poliourus, a new angelfish (Perciformes: Pomacanthidae) from the Tropical Western Pacific". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 57 (2): 511–520.
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