Actual angelfish
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Koran angelfish ( Pomacanthus semicirculatus ) |
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| Lacépède , 1802 |
The actual angelfish of the genus Pomacanthus live in the tropical Indo-Pacific and Atlantic always near coral and rock reefs. The often colorful animals grow to be 23 to 50 centimeters long.
They usually live in pairs or individually in large areas of 1000 m² and more. Like their relatives, the angel fish ( Holacanthus ), they undergo amazing color changes in the course of their lives. Young animals look completely different and have a striped pattern on a dark blue or black background. This enables them to stay in the adult territories without the territory owners reacting aggressively.
They are sometimes offered in specialist shops for marine aquarists and are coveted by some aquarists as a prestige object. However, animals with these spatial requirements cannot be offered an adequate habitat. Keeping them in captivity is therefore to be rejected with the exception of very large public show aquariums.
In many tropical countries they are offered as food fish on the fish markets.
species
- Ring angelfish ( Pomacanthus annularis ) (Bloch, 1787)
- Gray angelfish ( Pomacanthus arcuatus ) (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Crescent angelfish ( Pomacanthus asfur ) (Forsskål, 1775)
- Yellow-tailed angelfish ( Pomacanthus chrysurus ) (Cuvier, 1831)
- Emperor angelfish ( Pomacanthus imperator ) (Bloch, 1787)
- Sickle angelfish ( Pomacanthus maculosus ) (Forsskål, 1775)
- Blue-belted angelfish ( Pomacanthus navarchus ) (Cuvier, 1831)
- French angelfish ( Pomacanthus paru ) (Bloch, 1787)
- Trapeze angelfish ( Pomacanthus rhomboides ) (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908)
- Koran angelfish ( Pomacanthus semicirculatus ) (Cuvier, 1831)
- Six- band angelfish ( Pomacanthus sexstriatus ) (Cuvier, 1831)
- Blue-headed angelfish ( Pomacanthus xanthometopon ) (Bleeker, 1853)
- Cortez angelfish ( Pomacanthus zonipectus ) (Gill, 1862)
literature
- Roger C. Steene: Butterfly and Angelfish. Volume 1, 1977, Mergus Verlag, ISBN 3-88244-001-5
- Gerald R. Allen: Butterfly and Angelfish. Volume 2, 1979, Mergus Verlag, ISBN 3-88244-002-3
- Helmut Debelius , Rudie H. Kuiter : Angelfish. 2003, Ulmer Verlag, ISBN 3-8001-4458-1
Web links
- Pomacanthus on Fishbase.org (English)