Chaetodontoplus

Chaetodontoplus
Bluestriped angelfish
Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Pomacanthidae
Genus: Chaetodontoplus
Bleeker, 1876
Species

13, see text.

Chaetodontoplus is a genus of marine angelfishes in the family Pomacanthidae.

Species

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Chaetodontoplus ballinae Whitley, 1959.Ballina angelfish,Southwest Pacific: known only from off Ballina, New South Wales, Australia.
Chaetodontoplus caeruleopunctatus Yasuda & Tominaga, 1976.Bluespotted angelfishWestern-Pacific Ocean
Chaetodontoplus chrysocephalus (Bleeker, 1855).Orangeface angelfish,Western Pacific from Japan to Indonesia
Chaetodontoplus conspicillatus (Waite, 1900).Conspicuous angelfish,Australia, New Caledonia
Chaetodontoplus dimidiatus (Bleeker, 1860).Velvet angelfish,Western Central Pacific: Indonesia.
Chaetodontoplus duboulayi (Günther, 1867).Scribbled angelfishIndo-West Pacific Ocean
Chaetodontoplus melanosoma (Bleeker, 1853).Black-velvet angelfishIndo-West Pacific: Indo-Malayan region and New Guinea , northward to southern Japan.
Chaetodontoplus meredithii Kuiter, 1989.Queensland yellowtail angelfish,Australia
Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus (Bloch, 1787).Vermiculated angelfish,Indo-West Pacific: Japan to Indonesia, Sri Lanka and east to Papua New Guinea
Chaetodontoplus niger Chan, 1966.Black angelfishWestern Pacific: Japan and the South China Sea.
Chaetodontoplus personifer (McCulloch, 1914).Blueface angelfish,Indo-West Pacific: northwest Australia to Taiwan.
Chaetodontoplus poliourus Randall & Rocha, 2009[1]Greytail angelfish,Western Pacific: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Palau and Indonesia
Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844).Bluestriped angelfishcoastal waters of China, southern Japan, and southern Korea

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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