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Pomacanthus navarchus, the blue-girdled angelfish or majestic angelfish, is a marine angelfish from the Indo-Pacific region. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. [3] P. navarchus is one of the smallest of the larger species of angelfish. It grows to a maximum length of 28 centimetres (11 in), but is usually much smaller than ...
The genus Pomacanthus was created in 1802 by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756-1825) with the type species being designated as Chaetodon arcuatus. [2] The name is a compound of poma meaning"lid" and acanthus which means "thorn", a reference to the prominents spine on the rear margin of the operculum , a feature shared by ...
The largest species, the gray angelfish, Pomacanthus arcuatus, may reach a length of 60 cm (24 in); at the other extreme, members of the genus Centropyge do not exceed 15 cm (5.9 in). A length of 20 to 30 cm (7.9 to 11.8 in) is typical for the rest of the family.
Juvenile Brownbanded bamboo shark Many sharks will outgrow most home aquariums [ 141 ] [ 142 ] and/or adapt poorly to captivity. [ 70 ] However, numerous coastal and coral reef sharks do well in good aquarium surroundings [ 70 ] although you should have experience in keeping other saltwater fish before trying to keep sharks as they are more ...
Blue girdled angelfish (Pomacanthus navarchus), a marine angelfish from the Indo-Pacific region; Black-girdled barbet (Capito dayi), a bird in the family Ramphastidae, found in Bolivia and Brazil; Girdled Cardinalfish (Taeniamia zosterophora), native to the western Pacific Ocean from Indonesia to Vanuatu and from the Ryukyus to Australia
Axolotl and olm are perennibranchiate salamander species which retain their juvenile aquatic form throughout adulthood, examples of full neoteny. Gills are a common juvenile characteristic in amphibians which are kept after maturation; examples are the tiger salamander and rough-skinned newt, both of which retain gills into adulthood. [33]
Pomacanthus xanthometopon is a marine ray-finned fish, a marine angelfish belonging to the family Pomacanthidae found in shallow parts of the Indo-Pacific. It is commonly known as the blueface angelfish or the yellowface angelfish because of its striking facial colouration.
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