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Pomacanthus arcuatus (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 159287

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Pomacanthidae (Family) > Pomacanthus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Pomacanthus Lacepède, 1802
Synonymised
taxa
  Chaetodon arcuatus Linnaeus, 1758
Chaetodon littoricola Poey, 1868
Chaetodon lutescens Bonnaterre, 1788
Chaetodon quinquecinctus Cuvier, 1829
Chetodon lutescens Bonnaterre, 1788 (misspelling)
Pomacanthus baltcatus Cuvier, 1831 (misspelling)
Pomacanthus cingulatus Cuvier, 1831
Pomacanthus cinquecinctus Cuvier, 1829 (misspelling)
Sources  basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

basis of record: Robins, C.R., G.C. Ray, J. Douglass and R. Freund. 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. 354 p. [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English gray angelfish  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Host of  Caligus atromaculatus Wilson C.B., 1913 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus longipedis Bassett-Smith, 1898 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus xystercus Cressey, 1991 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Thysanote pomacanthi Krøyer, 1863 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Pseudanuretes parvulus (Wilson, 1913) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (16 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (105 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 14 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: Western Atlantic: from New England, USA to the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Also Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean, including Antilles  [details]
Images 
Pomacanthus arcuatus (juv.)
Pomacanthus arcuatus (juv.)
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Pomacanthus arcuatus
Pomacanthus arcuatus
added on 2008-12-13 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Pomacanthus arcuatus (juv.)
Pomacanthus arcuatus (juv.)
added on 2010-02-18 - author: Collection VLIZ
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Pomacanthus arcuatus
Pomacanthus arcuatus
added on 2010-06-10 - author: Collection VLIZ
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Pomacanthus arcuatus
Pomacanthus arcuatus
added on 2012-01-24 - author: De Pooter, Daphnis
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159287
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Pomacanthus arcuatus (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159287 on 2013-05-22
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