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Genicanthus caudovittatus, the zebra angelfish, swallowtail angelfish, and lyretail angelfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a marine angelfish belonging to the family Pomacanthidae. [3] It is found in the Indian Ocean.
Pomacanthus semicirculatus, also known as the semicircled angelfish, Koran angelfish, blue angelfish, zebra angelfish or half-circled angelfish, is a species of ray-finned fish, a marine angelfish, in the family Pomacanthidae. It is found in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade.
It does not have the vertical black stripes or the red eye seen in the wild angelfish. Zebra (Z/+ or Z/Z): The zebra phenotype results in four to six vertical stripes on the fish that in other ways resembles a silver angelfish. It is a dominant mutation that exists at the same locus as the stripeless gene.
Scientific name Common name Distribution Genicanthus bellus Randall, 1975. Ornate angelfish, western Pacific and eastern Indian Ocean Genicanthus caudovittatus (Günther, 1860). Zebra angelfish, waters of Madagascar, the Maldives, Mauritius and Réunion, and is also known in Weh Island Genicanthus lamarck (Lacépède, 1802).
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Marine angelfish are distinguished from butterflyfish by the presence of strong preopercle spines (part of the gill covers) in the former. This feature also explains the family name Pomacanthidae; from the Greek πομα, poma meaning "cover" and ακάνθα, akantha meaning "thorn".
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.
Pomacanthus asfur has been recorded at depths between 3 and 30 metres (9.8 and 98.4 ft). [1] It is a common species where there are relatively sheltered inshore reefs which have rich growth of soft and hard corals with a few patches of silty seabed.