Chaetodontoplus poliourus
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| Chaetodontoplus poliourus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Family: | Pomacanthidae |
| Genus: | Chaetodontoplus |
| Species: | C. poliourus |
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| Chaetodontoplus poliourus | |
Chaetodontoplus poliourus, the greytail angelfish,[3] is a species of marine angelfish in the class Actinopterygii. It is found in the coastal Pacific waters of Papua New Guinea, Palau, the Solomon Islands, and Indonesia.
Chaetodontoplus poliourus was first described by John Ernest Randall and Luiz A. Rocha in 2009;[2] the species holotype was taken from the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.[4] It is a marine angelfish (family Pomacanthidae) of the class Actinopterygii.[2]
This species is very similar to the closely related species Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus, the vermiculate angelfish. They are differentiated by the color of the caudal fin, which is yellow in C. mesoleucus and grey with a yellow margin in C. poliourus. The range of the two fishes overlaps in parts of Indonesia.[5]
Distribution
This fish occurs in reefs in the western Pacific Ocean. It is found in Papua New Guinea, Palau, the Solomon Islands, and parts of Indonesia, including the Lesser Sunda Islands, the Molucca Islands, Halmahera, and West Papua.[6]