Pomacanthus imperator (Bloch, 1787)

Emperor Angelfish

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Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:177f5fc4-a282-4bd5-9ef3-af095f5e2720

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Species presence

 Recorded In Australia
 Marine Habitats

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    Source: Australian National Fish Collection Images
    Image by: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO
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Description

Adult Emperor Angelfish have diagonal yellow and purplish-blue stripes on the body, and a curved black bar covering the eye. source: Australian Museum Factsheets

The Emperor Angelfish is a beautiful fish with many blue and yellow stripes and black mask edged with blue around the eyes. The dorsal fin is serrated with pale edge. The snout is pale blue. Juveniles look completely different with pale concentric circle pattern on dark blue background. source: OZ Animals

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Species Lists

RLS profile v3
IUCN_Threat_status: Least Concern
Threats: Overharvesting for aquarium trade
Frequency: 0.250
Range: 1037.991
Behaviour: Cave dwelling species that moves slowly about within a home range.
Invasive: Not known to be invasive
Common_Name: Emperor angelfish;
Description: Large colourful angelfish with alternating blue and yellow stripes along body, black mask through eye that connects to black bar behind head, pale snout, and yellow tail.
Abundance: 1.166

Names and sources

Accepted name Source
Pomacanthus imperator

Synonyms

Synonyms Source
Chaetodon imperator Bloch, 1787
Published in: Bloch, M.E. 1787. Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische Berlin : J. Morino Vol. 3 pp. 146 pp. pls 181-216
Holacanthus imperator (Bloch, 1787)
Holacanthus imperator (Bloch, 1787)
Published in: Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. Vol. 89 (1) pp. 11-127
Holacanthus imperator (Bloch, 1787)
Published in: McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part II. Mem. Aust. Mus. Vol. 5 pp. 145–329

Common Names

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Emperor Angelfish
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Angel Fish
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Emperor Angel-fish
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Emperor
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Imperial Angelfish
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Working classification

kingdom
ANIMALIA
phylum
CHORDATA
subphylum
VERTEBRATA
suprageneric
GNATHOSTOMATA
suprageneric
PISCES
class
ACTINOPTERYGII
subphylum
EUTELEOSTEI
superorder
ACANTHOPTERYGII
order
PERCIFORMES
suborder
PERCOIDEI
family
POMACANTHIDAE
genus
Pomacanthus
species
Pomacanthus imperator  Recorded in Australia

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