Sealife guideThe semicircle angelfishPomacanthus semicirculatus

Last updated on 06/24/2024 at 10:48 PM

Taxonomy

Common name: Semicircle angelfish, Koran angelfish
French name: Poisson ange à demi-cercles
Scientific name: Pomacanthus semicirculatus (Cuvier, 1831)
Family name: Pomacanthidae
Order name: Acanthuriformes
Class name: Actinopterygii

Did you know ?

The semicircle angelfish is listed as many other marine species within The IUCN Red List of threatened species. The semicircle angelfish appears in the IUCN Red List since 2010 within the category Least Concern !

Le poisson ange à demi-cercles juvénile () (Pomacanthus semicirculatus) © Iliuta Goean | Dreamstime.com

The semicircle angelfish (Pomacanthus semicirculatus) © Elias Levy sous licence Creative Commons

Within the same genus

Arabian angelfish
(Pomacanthus asfur)

Blueface angelfish
(Pomacanthus xanthometopon)

Bluering angelfish
(Pomacanthus annularis)

Emperor angelfish
(Pomacanthus imperator)

French angelfish
(Pomacanthus paru)

Sixbar angelfish
(Pomacanthus sexstriatus)

Yellow blotch angelfish
(Pomacanthus maculosus)

Yellow lemonpeel angelfish
(Pomacanthus navarchus)

Within the same family

Bicolor angelfish
(Centropyge bicolor)

Blue spotted angelfish
(Chaetodontoplus caeruleopunctatus)

Passer angelfish
(Holacanthus passer)

Pearl-scaled angelfish
(Centropyge vrolikii)

Queen angelfish
(Holacanthus ciliaris)

Rock beauty
(Holacanthus tricolor)

Rusty angelfish
(Centropyge ferrugata)

Scribbled angelfish
(Chaetodontoplus duboulayi)

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(Thunnus obesus)

Blackbar soldierfish
(Myripristis jacobus)

Blackwedged butterflyfish
(Chaetodon falcula)

Bleeker's damsel
(Chrysiptera bleekeri)

Five-lined cardinalfish
(Cheilodipterus quinquelineatus)

Frostfin cardinalfish
(Ostorhinchus hoevenii)

Slender grouper
(Anyperodon leucogrammicus)

Tessellated blenny
(Hypsoblennius invemar)

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