🦋 Family

Pomacanthidae

33 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › › Perciformes › Pomacanthidae

Centropyge loriculus, the flame angelfish, is a colorful reef fish with a 5–7+ year life span found across Oceania.

Paracentropyge multifasciata is an Indo-Pacific angelfish with distinct body markings and protogynous hermaphroditism.

Chaetodontoplus duboulayi, the scribbled angelfish, is a sexually dimorphic marine angelfish found in the southwestern Pacific.

Chaetodontoplus meredithi is an angelfish species endemic to eastern Australia that feeds on sponges and tunicates.

Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus is an angelfish found in the western Indo-Pacific that lives on coastal reefs and feeds on sponges, tunicates, and algae.

Genicanthus caudovittatus is a sexually dichromatic angelfish found on western Indian Ocean outer reef slopes.

Genicanthus lamarck is a reef-dwelling angelfish species that lives in the Indo-Pacific, with distinct male and female colour traits.

Genicanthus melanospilos, the sexually dichromatic spotbreast angelfish, lives in reefs of the eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans.

Pygoplites diacanthus, the royal angelfish, is a small Indo-Pacific reef angelfish popular in the aquarium trade.

Related Families

Labridae 155 species Pomacentridae 142 species Gobiidae 120 species Serranidae 103 species Blenniidae 86 species Chaetodontidae 82 species Percidae 67 species Carangidae 53 species

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