Chaetodontoplus

Summary

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

Chaetodontoplus
Bluestriped angelfish
Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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.

Species edit

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 Yasuda & Tominaga, 1976. Bluespotted angelfish Western-Pacific Ocean
Chaetodontoplus cephalareticulatus S. C. Shen & Lim, 1975 Southern Japan and Taiwan
  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 angelfish Indo-West Pacific Ocean
  Chaetodontoplus melanosoma (Bleeker, 1853). Black-velvet angelfish Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malayan region and New Guinea , northward to southern Japan.
  Chaetodontoplus meredithii Kuiter, 1989. Queensland yellowtail angelfish,

False personifer 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 angelfish Western Pacific: Japan and the South China Sea.
Chaetodontoplus personifer (McCulloch, 1914). True personifer 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 angelfish coastal waters of China, southern Japan, and southern Korea
Chaetodontoplus vanderloosi Allen & Steene, 2004 Vanderloos angelfish Papua New Guinea

References edit

  • Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). Species of Chaetodontoplus in FishBase. June 2006 version.
  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.