Chaetodontoplus Explained

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. Southwest Pacific: known only from off Ballina, New South Wales, Australia.
Chaetodontoplus caeruleopunctatus Yasuda & Tominaga, 1976. Western-Pacific Ocean
Chaetodontoplus cephalareticulatus S. C. Shen & Lim, 1975 Southern Japan and Taiwan
Chaetodontoplus chrysocephalus (Bleeker, 1855). Western Pacific from Japan to Indonesia
Chaetodontoplus conspicillatus (Waite, 1900). Australia, New Caledonia
Chaetodontoplus dimidiatus (Bleeker, 1860). Western Central Pacific: Indonesia.
Chaetodontoplus duboulayi (Günther, 1867).Indo-West Pacific Ocean
Chaetodontoplus melanosoma (Bleeker, 1853). Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malayan region and New Guinea, northward to southern Japan.
Chaetodontoplus meredithii Kuiter, 1989. Queensland yellowtail angelfish, False personifer angelfishAustralia
Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus (Bloch, 1787). 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] Western Pacific: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Palau and Indonesia
Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844). coastal waters of China, southern Japan, and southern Korea
Chaetodontoplus vanderloosi Allen & Steene, 2004Vanderloos angelfish Papua New Guinea

Notes and References

  1. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . 57 . 2009 . 511–520 . Chaetodontoplus poliourus, a new angelfish (Perciformes: Pomacanthidae) from the Tropical Western Pacific . John E. Randall and Luiz A. Rocha . 2.