CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Actinopterygii (class)  »  Perciformes (order)  »  Pomacanthidae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 365083 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus   (Bloch, 1787)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images Image by: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Rights: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO Family: 37 365 Pomacanthidae (Angelfishes) - show full list Standard Name (AS5300): Vermiculate Angelfish Organism Type: an angelfish Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Coastal (0-40m) Parent Codes: 37 365906     Chaetodontoplus spp. Previous Codes (if any): 365083

Distribution map: View detailed map or click on map to see same. Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2008-11-19. Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 1 to 25 m.

Taxon Notes:

Randall & Rocha (2009) described C. poliourus from PNG, the Solomons Islands, Palau & Indonesia. C. poliourus was previously regarded as a colour form of C. mesoleucas. To date there are no known records of C. poliourus from Australian waters.

Identifiers:

AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:382f28d3-03c8-4c0c-9021-da9c88d741e2 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia FoA 647 View at FoA ITIS 169676 View at ITIS WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:280121 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-03-29 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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