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WoRMS taxon detailsChaetodon xanthocephalus Bennett, 1833
218721 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218721)
accepted
Species
Chaetodon auromarginatus Bliss, 1883 · unaccepted
Chaetodon dayi Ahl, 1923 · unaccepted
Chaetodon nigripinnatus Desjardins, 1836 · unaccepted
Chaetodon nigripinnis Peters, 1855 · unaccepted
Chaetodon xanthoicephalus Bennett, 1833 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Chelmo pulcher Steindachner, 1875 · unaccepted
Choetodon nigripinnatus Desjardins, 1836 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Tetragonoptrus pulcher (Steindachner, 1875) · unaccepted
marine,
Bennett, E. T. (1833). Characters of new species of fishes from Ceylon. <em>Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1832 (pt 2): 182-184. [details]
Description Forms loose shoals of 5-6 individuals and usually found around isolated coral heads. Territorial and agressive to other...
Description Forms loose shoals of 5-6 individuals and usually found around isolated coral heads. Territorial and agressive to other chaetodonts; omnivorous (Ref. 5503). [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Chaetodon xanthocephalus Bennett, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218721 on 2025-06-04
Date action by
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Bennett, E. T. (1833). Characters of new species of fishes from Ceylon. <em>Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1832 (pt 2): 182-184. [details] original description (of Chaetodon auromarginatus Bliss, 1883) Bliss, R. (1883). Descriptions of new species of Mauritian fishes. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius (N. S.).</em> v. 13: 45-63. page(s): 48 [details] original description (of Chaetodon dayi Ahl, 1923) Ahl, E. (1923). Zur Kenntnis der Knochenfischfamilie Chaetodontidae insbesondere der Unterfamilie Chaetodontinae. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte Berlin (N.F.).</em> v. 89 Abt. A, Heft 5: 1-205, Pls. 1-2. [details] original description (of Chelmo pulcher Steindachner, 1875) Steindachner, F. (1875). Ichthyologische Beiträge. [I.]. <em>Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe.</em> v. 70 (1. Abth.): 375-390, Pl. 1. [details] basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [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]
  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Forms loose shoals of 5-6 individuals and usually found around isolated coral heads. Territorial and agressive to other chaetodonts; omnivorous (Ref. 5503). [details]
To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Chelmo pulcher Steindachner, 1875) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Chaetodon dayi Ahl, 1923) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Chaetodon nigripinnatus Desjardins, 1836) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Chaetodon nigripinnis Peters, 1855) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chaetodon xanthocephalus) To FishBase (from synonym Chelmo pulcher Steindachner, 1875) To FishBase (from synonym Chaetodon nigripinnis Peters, 1855) To FishBase (from synonym Chaetodon nigripinnatus Desjardins, 1836) To FishBase (from synonym Chaetodon auromarginatus Bliss, 1883) To FishBase (from synonym Chaetodon dayi Ahl, 1923) To FishBase (from synonym Tetragonoptrus pulcher (Steindachner, 1875)) To FishBase (from synonym Chaetodon xanthoicephalus Bennett, 1833) To FishBase (from synonym Choetodon nigripinnatus Desjardins, 1836) To FishBase To FishBase images (Chaetodon xanthocephalus, Maldives, by Rusconi, G.) To Fishipedia To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 7 proteins) To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) To NMNH Extant Collection (Chaetodon xanthocephalus FIN027776 Slide 120 mm) To ITIS |
