Pomacanthus

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Eupercaria
Ordo: Perciformes
Subordo: Percoidei
Superfamilia: Percoidea

Familia: Pomacanthidae
Genus: Pomacanthus
Species: P. annularis – P. arcuatus – P. asfur - P. chrysurus – P. imperator – P. maculosus – P. navarchus – P. paru – P. rhomboides – P. semicirculatus – P. sexstriatus – P. xanthometopon – P. zonipectus
Name

Pomacanthus Lacepède, 1802
References

Pomacanthus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Pomacanthus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Vernacular names
Deutsch: Eigentliche Kaiserfische
euskara: Aingeru-arrain
日本語: サザナミヤッコ属
lietuvių: Paprastieji jūrų angelai
кырык мары: Помакантус
русский: Помаканты
українська: Чорна риба-янгол

Pomacanthus is a genus of marine angelfish that is usually found around reefs and coral. Some of the notable places one can see these vari-coloured fish includes the Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Sipidan off the southern coast of Sabah, Malaysia. Generally the patterns and colors of these fish undergo a major transformation from juvenile to adult forms. The juveniles may even appear to be a different species.
Species

The following 13 species are classified within the genus Pomacanthus:[3]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Pomacanthus annularis (Bloch, 1787).	Bluering angelfish,	the Indo-West Pacific oceans from East Africa, throughout Indonesia and New Guinea to New Caledonia, north to southern Japan.
	Pomacanthus arcuatus (Linnaeus, 1758).	Gray angelfish,	western Atlantic from New England to the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and also the Bahamas, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean, including the Antilles
	Pomacanthus asfur (Forsskål, 1775).	Arabian angelfish,	the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to Zanzibar. It can be found also in the Persian Gulf.
	Pomacanthus chrysurus (Cuvier, 1831).	Goldtail angelfish,	western Indian Ocean (South Africa including Comoros, Seychelles and Madagascar)
	Pomacanthus imperator (Bloch, 1787).	Emperor angelfish,	the Indian and Pacific Oceans, from the Red Sea to Hawaii and the Austral Islands.
	Pomacanthus maculosus (Forsskål, 1775).	Yellowbar angelfish,	the Persian Gulf, the northwestern Indian Ocean, and the Red Sea
	Pomacanthus navarchus (Cuvier, 1831).	Blue-girdled angelfish,	the Indo-Pacific region
	Pomacanthus paru (Bloch, 1787).	French angelfish,	western Atlantic from New York and the Bahamas to Brazil, and also the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, including the Antilles, Roatan, and the eastern Atlantic from around Ascension Island and St. Paul's Rocks
	Pomacanthus rhomboides (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908).	Old woman angelfish,	western Indian Ocean
	Pomacanthus semicirculatus (Cuvier, 1831).	Semicircle angelfish,	east coast of Africa to Fiji and Japan, the east coast of Australia and New Caledonia.
	Pomacanthus sexstriatus (Cuvier, 1831).	Sixbar angelfish,	South Pacific reefs, most commonly the Great Barrier Reef of Australia's north-east coast
	Pomacanthus xanthometopon (Bleeker, 1853).	Yellowface angelfish, Blueface angelfish,	Maldive Islands, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, northern Australia and Micronesia
	Pomacanthus zonipectus (Gill, 1862).	Cortez angelfish,	Eastern Pacific

Systematics

The genus Pomacanthus was created in 1802 by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756-1825) with the type species being designated as Chaetodon arcuatus.[2] The name is a compound of poma meaning"lid" and acanthus which means "thorn", a reference to the prominents spine on the rear margin of the operculum, a feature shared by all the marine angelfishes.[4]

Some authorities divide the genus up into the following subgenera:[4]

Pomacanthus Lacépède, 1802
Pomacanthus (Pomacanthus) arcuatus
Pomacanthus (Pomacanthus) paru
Pomacanthus (Pomacanthus) zonipectus
Acanthochaetodon Bleeker, 1876
Pomacanthus (Acanthochaetodon) annularis
Pomacanthus (Acanthochaetodon) chrysurus
Pomacanthus (Acanthochaetodon) imperator
Pomacanthus (Acanthochaetodon) rhomboides
Arusetta Fraser-Brunner, 1933
Pomacanthus (Arusetta) asfur
Pomacanthus (Arusetta) maculosus
Pomacanthus (Arusetta) semicirculatus
Euxiphipops Fraser-Brunner 1934
Pomacanthus (Euxiphipops) navarchus
Pomacanthus (Euxiphipops) sexstriatus
Pomacanthus (Euxiphipops) xanthometopon

References

Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Pomacanthidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Pomacanthus". FishBase. December 2019 version.
Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (21 July 2020). "Order ACANTHURIFORMES (part 1): Families LOBOTIDAE, POMACANTHIDAE, DREPANEIDAE and CHAETODONTIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 26 February 2021.

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