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Genus of fishes

Chaetodontoplus
Bluestriped angelfish
Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acanthuriformes
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. They 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 Yasuda & Tominaga, 1976. Bluespotted angelfish Western-Pacific Ocean
Chaetodontoplus cephalareticulatus S. C. Shen & Lim, 1975 Maze Angelfish 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 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

  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.
Taxon identifiers
Chaetodontoplus
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