WoRMS taxon details
Centropyge joculator Smith-Vaniz & Randall, 1974
278840 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:278840)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Randall, J. E. (1974). Two new species of angelfishes (Centropyge) from the Cocos-Keeling Islands. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 126: 105-113. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Centropyge joculator Smith-Vaniz & Randall, 1974. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=278840 on 2025-06-20
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Nomenclature
original description
Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Randall, J. E. (1974). Two new species of angelfishes (Centropyge) from the Cocos-Keeling Islands. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 126: 105-113. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Centropyge joculator)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Centropyge joculator, Christmas I., by Allen, G.R.)
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 34 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Centropyge joculator FIN032003 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Centropyge joculator)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Centropyge joculator, Christmas I., by Allen, G.R.)
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 34 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Centropyge joculator FIN032003 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
