WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Holacanthus caudibicolor Sauvage, 1891) Sauvage, H.-E. (1891). Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar. Volume XVI. <em>Histoire naturelle des poissons. 2 volumes (text and atlas). Imprimerie Nationale, Paris.</em> 1-50 + 13 pls. [details]
original description
(of Holacanthus caudovittatus Günther, 1860) Günther, A. (1860). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Squamipinnes, Cirrhitidae, Triglidae, Trachinidae, Sciaenidae, Polynemidae, Sphyraenidae, Trichiuridae, Scombridae, Carangidae, Xiphiidae. <em>British Museum London.</em> v. 2: i-xxi + 1-548. [details]
original description
(of Holacanthus zebra Sauvage, 1891) Sauvage, H.-E. (1891). Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar. Volume XVI. <em>Histoire naturelle des poissons. 2 volumes (text and atlas). Imprimerie Nationale, Paris.</em> 1-50 + 13 pls. [details]
basis of record
Smith, J. L. B. (1955). The Fishes of the Family Pomacanthidae in the Western Indian Ocean. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 12).</em> 8 (89) (art. 46): 377-384, Pls. 4-5. [details]
Ecologyecology 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] 
Otheradditional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Unreviewed
Description Feeds on planktonic food several meters above the bottom. A single male is usually seen with several females, commonly on steep slopes<111>. Males develop as a result of sex change of females<307>. [details]
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English |
zebra angelfish |
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To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Holacanthus caudibicolor Sauvage, 1891)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Holacanthus zebra Sauvage, 1891)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Genicanthus caudovittatus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Holacanthus caudibicolor Sauvage, 1891)
To FishBase (from synonym Centropyge caudovittatus (Günther, 1860))
To FishBase (from synonym Holacanthus caudovittatus Günther, 1860)
To FishBase (from synonym Holacanthus zebra Sauvage, 1891)
To FishBase images (Genicanthus caudovittatus, Israel, by Randall, J.E.)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Holacanthus caudovittatus Günther, 1860)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Centropyge caudovittatus (Günther, 1860))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Genicanthus caudovittatus FIN032053 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Genicanthus caudovittatus FIN032054 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Unreviewed
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