Velvet angelfish
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Blue stripe angelfish |
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| Bleeker , 1876 |
The velvet angelfish ( Chaetodontoplus ) are a genus of angelfish (Pomacanthidae). All species live in the coral reefs of the western Pacific from Japan to Australia . Only Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus lives with a population near Sri Lanka also in the Indian Ocean .
features
Velvet angelfish grow to be 10 to 35 centimeters long. Of all angelfish they are most similar to some butterflyfish genera and can often only be distinguished from them by the sting on the lower gill cover, which is unique to all angelfish .
Way of life
Velvet angelfish live individually, in pairs, rarely in small groups and, as food specialists, mostly feed on sponges and other sessile invertebrates and are therefore completely unsuitable for aquarium keeping , although they are sometimes offered for three to four-digit prices .
species
There are 14 types :
- Chaetodontoplus ballinae Whitley, 1959 .
- Crystal velvet angelfish ( Chaetodontoplus caeruleopunctatus ) Yasuda & Tominaga, 1976 .
- Goldheaded velvet angelfish ( Chaetodontoplus chrysocephalus ) ( Bleeker , 1854) .
- Collared angelfish ( Chaetodontoplus conspicillatus ) (Waite, 1900) .
- Phantom velvet angelfish ( Chaetodontoplus dimidiatus ) (Bleeker, 1860) .
- Queensland velvet angelfish ( Chaetodontoplus duboulayi ) ( Günther , 1867) .
- Black velvet angelfish ( Chaetodontoplus melanosoma ) (Bleeker, 1853) .
- Masked velvet angelfish ( Chaetodontoplus meredithi ) Kuiter , 1989 .
- Velvet angelfish ( Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus ) ( Bloch , 1787) .
- Chaetodontoplus niger Chan, 1966 .
- Australian velvet angelfish ( Chaetodontoplus personifer ) ( McCulloch , 1914) .
- Chaetodontoplus poliourus Randall & Rocha, 2009 .
- Blue stripe angelfish ( Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis ) ( Temminck & Schlegel , 1844) .
- Chaetodontoplus vanderloosi Allen & Steene, 2004 .
literature
- Frank Schneidewind: Angelfish . 1999, Tetra Verlag, ISBN 3-89745-137-9
- 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
- Svein Fossa / Alf Jacob Nilsen: Coral reef aquarium Volume 3 , Birgit Schmettkamp Verlag, Bornheim, 1993, ISBN 3-928819-14-3
- Hans A. Baensch / Robert A. Patzner: Mergus Sea Water Atlas Volume 7 Perciformes (perch-like) , Mergus-Verlag, Melle, ISBN 3-88244-107-0
- Ewald Lieske / Robert F. Myers: Coral fish of the world , year Top Special Verlag Hamburg, ISBN 3-86132-112-2
Web links
- Chaetodontoplus on Fishbase.org (English)