Chaetodontoplus
| Chaetodontoplus | |
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| Bluestriped angelfish Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Pomacanthidae |
| Genus: | Chaetodontoplus Bleeker, 1876 |
| Type species | |
| Holacanthus septentrionalis Temminck & Schlegel 1844
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Chaetodontoplus is a genus of marine angelfishes in the family Pomacanthidae. They are found in the Indo-Pacific region.
Species[edit]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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| Chaetodontoplus ballinae Whitley, 1959. | Ballina angelfish | Southwest Pacific: known only from off Ballina, New South Wales, Australia. | |
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Chaetodontoplus caeruleopunctatus Yasuda & Tominaga, 1976. | Bluespotted angelfish | Western-Pacific Ocean |
| Chaetodontoplus cephalareticulatus S. C. Shen & Lim, 1975 | Southern Japan and Taiwan | ||
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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. | |
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Chaetodontoplus duboulayi (Günther, 1867). | Scribbled angelfish | Indo-West Pacific Ocean |
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Chaetodontoplus melanosoma (Bleeker, 1853). | Black-velvet angelfish | Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malayan region and New Guinea , northward to southern Japan. |
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Chaetodontoplus meredithii Kuiter, 1989. | Queensland yellowtail angelfish,
False personifer angelfish |
Australia |
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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. | |
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Chaetodontoplus poliourus Randall & Rocha, 2009[1] | Greytail angelfish | Western Pacific: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Palau and Indonesia |
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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.
- ^ 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.