Smoked angelfish
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The Indian smoked angelfish ( Apolemichthys xanthurus ), the type species of the genus. |
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The Smoked Angelfish ( Apolemichthys ) live in the Indo-Pacific . They are closely related to the Atlantic and East Pacific angelfish ( Holacanthus ). Smoked angelfish live in coral reefs , mostly below 20 meters deep. They are rather rare and many species only have a very small, endemic range.
features
Smoked angelfish are medium-sized angelfish and grow to be 15 to 30 centimeters long. There are no external gender differences, but the juvenile fish are often colored differently.
Way of life
Smoked angelfish live individually or in pairs and, as food specialists, feed primarily on sponges .
species
There are nine types :
- Black-banded angelfish ( Apolemichthys arcuatus (Gray 1831))
- Armitagei Smoked Angelfish ( Apolemichthys armitagei Smith 1955)
- Griffis Smoked Angelfish ( Apolemichthys griffisi (Carlson & Taylor 1981))
- Black-headed angelfish ( Apolemichthys guezei (Randall & Maugé 1978))
- Tiger Smoked Angelfish ( Apolemichthys kingi Heemstra 1984)
- Three-point angelfish ( Apolemichthys trimaculatus (Cuvier 1831))
- Gold spotted angelfish ( Apolemichthys xanthopunctatus Burgess 1973)
- Arabian angelfish ( Apolemichthys xanthotis (Fraser-Brunner 1950))
- Indian smoked angelfish ( Apolemichthys xanthurus (Bennett 1833))
The genus is probably not monophyletic , as the black- banded smoked angelfish ( A. arcuatus ) may be more closely related to the dwarf angelfish Centropyge narcosis and Centropyge colini than to the other Apolemichthys species.
literature
- Frank Schneidewind: Angelfish . 1999, Tetra Verlag, ISBN 3-89745-137-9
- Gerald R. Allen : Butterfly and Angelfish, Volume 2 , 1979, Mergus Verlag, ISBN 3-88244-002-3
- Helmut Debelius , Rudie H. Kuiter : Kaiserfische , 2003, Ulmer Verlag, ISBN 3-80014-458-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michelle Gaither, Jennifer K. Schultz, David R. Bellwood, Richard L. Pyle, Joseph D. DiBattista, Luiz A. Rocha, Brian W. Bowen: Evolution of pygmy angelfishes: recent divergences, introgression, and the usefulness of color in taxonomy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, February 2014, doi: 10.1016 / j.ympev.2014.01.017
Web links
- Apolemichthys on Fishbase.org (English)