Pomacanthus

Taxobox
name = "Pomacanthus"
fossil_range = Eocene to Present [cite journal
last = Sepkoski
first = Jack
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera
journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology
volume = 364
issue =
pages = p.560
publisher =
location =
date = 2002
url = http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class
doi =
id =
accessdate = 2008-01-08 ]

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = |Gray angelfish, "Pomacanthus arcuatus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Pomacanthidae
genus = "Pomacanthus"
genus_authority = Lacépède, 1802
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text

"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.

pecies

* Bluering angelfish, "Pomacanthus annularis" (Bloch, 1787).
* Gray angelfish, "Pomacanthus arcuatus" (Linnaeus, 1758).
* Arabian angelfish, "Pomacanthus asfur" (Forsskål, 1775).
* Goldtail angelfish, "Pomacanthus chrysurus" (Cuvier, 1831).
* Emperor angelfish, "Pomacanthus imperator" (Bloch, 1787).
* Yellowbar angelfish, "Pomacanthus maculosus" (Forsskål, 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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