WoRMS taxon details
Centropyge multispinis (Playfair, 1867)
211774 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:211774)
accepted
Species
Centropyge multispinus (Playfair, 1867) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Centropyge somervilli Regan, 1905 · unaccepted
Holacanthus multispinis Playfair, 1867 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Holacanthus multispinis Playfair, 1867) Playfair, R. L.; Günther, A. (1867). The fishes of Zanzibar, with a list of the fishes of the whole east coast of Africa. <em>London.</em> i-xiv + 1-153, Pls. 1-21. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Centropyge multispinis (Playfair, 1867). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211774 on 2025-04-27
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Holacanthus multispinis Playfair, 1867) Playfair, R. L.; Günther, A. (1867). The fishes of Zanzibar, with a list of the fishes of the whole east coast of Africa. <em>London.</em> i-xiv + 1-153, Pls. 1-21. [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]
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]
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
Unreviewed
Authority Authority given as (Playfair & Gunther, 1867) , and spelt C. multispinis in Randall <307>. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | dusky angelfish | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (28 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Holacanthus multispinis Playfair, 1867)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Centropyge multispinis)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Holacanthus multispinis Playfair, 1867)
To FishBase (from synonym Centropyge multispinus (Playfair, 1867))
To FishBase images (Centropyge multispinis, Indonesia, by Allen, G.R.)
To Fishipedia
To GenBank (37 nucleotides; 27 proteins)
To GenBank (37 nucleotides; 27 proteins) (from synonym Holacanthus multispinis Playfair, 1867)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Holacanthus multispinis Playfair in Playfair & Günther, 1867; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3100387) (from synonym Holacanthus multispinis Playfair, 1867)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Centropyge multispinis FIN032014 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Centropyge multispinis FIN032015 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Holacanthus multispinis Playfair, 1867)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Centropyge multispinis)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Holacanthus multispinis Playfair, 1867)
To FishBase (from synonym Centropyge multispinus (Playfair, 1867))
To FishBase images (Centropyge multispinis, Indonesia, by Allen, G.R.)
To Fishipedia
To GenBank (37 nucleotides; 27 proteins)
To GenBank (37 nucleotides; 27 proteins) (from synonym Holacanthus multispinis Playfair, 1867)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Holacanthus multispinis Playfair in Playfair & Günther, 1867; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3100387) (from synonym Holacanthus multispinis Playfair, 1867)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Centropyge multispinis FIN032014 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Centropyge multispinis FIN032015 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
