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Taxon profile

family

angelfishes
Pomacanthidae D.S. Jordan & Evermann, 1898

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Actinopterygii - ray-finned fishes »  order Acanthuriformes

Images

Pomacanthus paru - French Angelfish

Pomacanthus paru - French Angelfish

Author: Frank and Joyce Burek

Pomacanthus navarchus - Blue Girdled Angelfish

Pomacanthus navarchus - Blue Girdled Angelfish

Author: Milan Kořínek

Centropyge bicolor - Bicolor Angelfish

Centropyge bicolor - Bicolor Angelfish

Author: Milan Kořínek

Functions restricted to taxon Pomacanthidae

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Included taxa

Number of records: 8

genus Apolemichthys Burton, 1934
genus Centropyge Kaup, 1860
genus Chaetodontoplus Bleeker, 1876
genus Genicanthus Swainson, 1839
genus Holacanthus Lacépède, 1802
genus Paracentropyge Burgess, 1991
genus Pomacanthus Lacépède, 1802 - angelfish
genus Pygoplites Fraser-Brunner, 1933

Links and literature

CZ AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [family/372]

Plíštil J. (Ed.) (2001-2025): AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [http://aquatab.net] [as Pomacanthidae]
Data retrieved on: 17 January 2010
CZ Hanel L., Plíštil J., Novák J. (2011): České názvy živočichů V. Ryby a rybovití obratlovci (Pisces). 7. Paprskoploutví (Actinopterygii) Kostnatí (Neopterygii) [Ropušnicotvaří (Scorpaeniformes) – ostnoploutví (Perciformes) – Percoidei], Národní muzeum (zoologické oddělení), Praha, 148 str. [as Pomacanthidae]
Data retrieved on: 19 August 2019
EN Sheiko B.A. (2013): On family-group names of extant fishes and fish-like vertebrates of the world, Explorations of the fauna of the seas. St. Petersburg: Zoological Institute RAS. Vol. 74 (82). P. 1–204. [as Pomacanthidae D.S. Jordan et Evermann, 1898]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2019

Data source info

Froese R., Pauly D. (eds.): FishBase
[Data retrieved on: 27 May 2007]

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