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As juveniles, angelfish can adapt to eating typical aquarium food and hence have a higher survival rate than individuals taken as adults, which require a more specialized diet. [22] In Brazil, the queen angelfish is the most common marine ornamental fish sold aboard. [1]
Holacanthus. Species: H. passer. Binomial name. Holacanthus passer. Valenciennes, 1864. Holacanthus passer (king angelfish or passer angelfish) is a large marine angelfish of the family Pomacanthidae. [2] Its large size and bright colors make it a popular aquarium fish, even though it can be difficult to keep.
Emperor angelfish. The emperor angelfish (Pomacanthus imperator) is a species of marine angelfish. It is a reef -associated fish, native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, from the Red Sea to Hawaii and the Austral Islands. This species is generally associated with stable populations and faces no major threats of extinction. [1]
Pomacanthidae. Marine angelfish are perciform fish of the family Pomacanthidae. They are found on shallow reefs in the tropical Atlantic, Indian, and mostly western Pacific Oceans. The family contains seven genera and about 86 species. They should not be confused with the freshwater angelfish, tropical cichlids of the Amazon Basin.
The French angelfish is found at depths between 3 and 100 m (9.8 and 328.1 ft). It is common on rocky and coral reefs where it is normally encountered in pairs, frequently in the vicinity of sea fans. Its diet comprises sponges, algae, bryozoans, zoantharians, gorgonians, hydroids, coral [5] and tunicates.
Holacanthus bermudensis was first formally described as Holacanthus ciliaris bermudensis in 1876 by the American ichthyologist George Brown Goode (1851-1896). The original type specimens from Bermuda, the syntypes, were set aside and replaced by a neotype, which was the holotype of Angelichthys isabelita which had been described by David Starr Jordan and Cloudsley Louis Ritter with the type ...
Angelichthys Jordan & Evermann, 1896. Pomacanthodes Gill, 1862. Holacanthus is a genus of marine angelfishes (family Pomacanthidae). The eight species are particularly abundant near volcanic rocks and coral islands. Some are highly valued as food, but even more so for aquaria, as all are brightly colored.
Bluering angelfish. The bluering angelfish (Pomacanthus annularis), also known as the annularis angelfish and the blue king angelfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a marine angelfish belonging to the family Pomacanthidae. [3] It is member of the genus Pomacanthus, composed of large marine angelfish. [4]