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Chaetodontoplus

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Chaetodontoplus is a genus of marine angelfishes in the family Pomacanthidae. They are found in the Indo-Pacific region.

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Chaetodontoplus
Bluestriped angelfish
Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Acanthuriformes
Family: Pomacanthidae
Genus: Chaetodontoplus
Bleeker, 1876
Type species
Holacanthus septentrionalis
Temminck & Schlegel 1844
Species

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Species

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ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Chaetodontoplus ballinae Whitley, 1959.Ballina angelfishSouthwest Pacific: known only from off Ballina, New South Wales, Australia.
Chaetodontoplus caeruleopunctatus Yasuda & Tominaga, 1976.Bluespotted angelfishWestern-Pacific Ocean
Chaetodontoplus cephalareticulatus S. C. Shen & Lim, 1975Maze AngelfishSouthern Japan and Taiwan
Chaetodontoplus chrysocephalus (Bleeker, 1855).Orangeface angelfishWestern Pacific from Japan to Indonesia
Chaetodontoplus conspicillatus (Waite, 1900).Conspicuous angelfishAustralia, New Caledonia
Chaetodontoplus dimidiatus (Bleeker, 1860).Velvet angelfishWestern Central Pacific: Indonesia.
Chaetodontoplus duboulayi (Günther, 1867).Scribbled angelfishIndo-West Pacific Ocean
Chaetodontoplus melanosoma (Bleeker, 1853).Black-velvet angelfishIndo-West Pacific: Indo-Malayan region and New Guinea, northward to southern Japan.
Chaetodontoplus meredithii Kuiter, 1989.Queensland yellowtail angelfish,

False personifer angelfish

Australia
Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus (Bloch, 1787).Vermiculated angelfishIndo-West Pacific: Japan to Indonesia, Sri Lanka and east to Papua New Guinea
Chaetodontoplus niger Chan, 1966.Black angelfishWestern Pacific: Japan and the South China Sea.
Chaetodontoplus personifer (McCulloch, 1914).True personifer angelfishIndo-West Pacific: northwest Australia to Taiwan.
Chaetodontoplus poliourus Randall & Rocha, 2009[1]Greytail angelfishWestern Pacific: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Palau and Indonesia
Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844).Bluestriped angelfishcoastal waters of China, southern Japan, and southern Korea
Chaetodontoplus vanderloosi Allen & Steene, 2004Vanderloos angelfishPapua New Guinea
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