Marine Angelfish (Family: Pomacanthidae, Genus: Pomacanthus) - Wiki Pomacanthus
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[Photo] Gray Angelfish, Pomacanthus arcuatus. Date: 5 August 2005. Photo by Vsion 2005
Pomacanthus is a genus of marine angelfish that is usually found around reefs and coral. Some of the notable places one can see these vari-coloured fish includes the Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Sipidan off the southern coast of Sabah, Malaysia.
Species
Bluering angelfish, Pomacanthus annularis (Bloch, 1787).
Gray angelfish, Pomacanthus arcuatus (Linnaeus, 1758).
Arabian angelfish, Pomacanthus asfur (Forssk??l, 1775).
Goldtail angelfish, Pomacanthus chrysurus (Cuvier, 1831).
Emperor angelfish, Pomacanthus imperator (Bloch, 1787).
Yellowbar angelfish, Pomacanthus maculosus (Forssk??l, 1775).
Bluegirdled angelfish, Pomacanthus navarchus (Cuvier, 1831).
French angelfish, Pomacanthus paru (Bloch, 1787).
Old woman angelfish, Pomacanthus rhomboides (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908).
Semicircle angelfish, Pomacanthus semicirculatus (Cuvier, 1831).
Sixbar angelfish, Pomacanthus sexstriatus (Cuvier, 1831).
Yellowface angelfish, Pomacanthus xanthometopon (Bleeker, 1853).
Cortez angelfish, Pomacanthus zonipectus (Gill, 1862).
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