Sealife guideThe semicircle angelfishPomacanthus semicirculatus

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

Sixbar angelfish
(Pomacanthus sexstriatus)

Blueface angelfish
(Pomacanthus xanthometopon)

Yellow lemonpeel angelfish
(Pomacanthus navarchus)

Bluering angelfish
(Pomacanthus annularis)

Arabian angelfish
(Pomacanthus asfur)

French angelfish
(Pomacanthus paru)

Yellow blotch angelfish
(Pomacanthus maculosus)

Gray angelfish
(Pomacanthus arcuatus)

Within the same family

Passer angelfish
(Holacanthus passer)

Banded angelfish
(Apolemichthys arcuatus)

Yellow-ear angelfish
(Apolemichthys xanthotis)

Blackstriped angelfish
(Genicanthus lamarck)

Two spined angelfish
(Centropyge bispinosa)

Pearl-scaled angelfish
(Centropyge vrolikii)

Bicolor angelfish
(Centropyge bicolor)

Queen angelfish
(Holacanthus ciliaris)

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(Chaetodon paucifasciatus)

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(Cephalopholis hemistiktos)

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(Lutjanus ehrenbergii)

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