Species details : Pomacanthus paru (Bloch, 1787)

Accepted scientific name:
Pomacanthus paru (Bloch, 1787) (accepted name) 1 literature reference for Pomacanthus paru  (Bloch, 1787)
Synonyms:
Chaetodon aureus Bloch, 1787 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Chaetodon aureus Bloch, 1787
Chaetodon paru Bloch, 1787 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Chaetodon paru Bloch, 1787
Pomacanthus aureus (Bloch, 1787) (synonym) 1 literature reference for Pomacanthus aureus (Bloch, 1787)
Common names:
Common name Language Country
Fransk kejserfisk Danish Denmark Click here to show the literature
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Angelfish English Jamaica(Discovery Bay) Click here to show the literature
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Angelfish English USA Click here to show the literature
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French angel English - Click here to show the literature
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French angelfish English - Click here to show the literature
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French angelfish English Bahamas Click here to show the literature
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French angelfish English Barbados Click here to show the literature
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French angelfish English Jamaica(Discovery Bay) Click here to show the literature
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French angelfish English USA(St. Paul's Rocks, Brazil) Click here to show the literature
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Demoiselle chiririte French France Click here to show the literature
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Samtschwarzer Kaiserfisch German Germany Click here to show the literature
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Kihoshi-yakko Japanese Japan Click here to show the literature
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Ustniczek czarny Polish Poland Click here to show the literature
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Enxada Portuguese Brazil(Rio Grande do Norte) Click here to show the literature
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Frade Portuguese Brazil
Jandaia Portuguese Brazil(Northeastern Brazil: Ceará) Click here to show the literature
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Paru Portuguese Brazil
Paru-da-pedra Portuguese Brazil Click here to show the literature
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Paru-de-pedra Portuguese Brazil(Northeastern Brazil: Pernambuco) Click here to show the literature
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Paru-frade Portuguese Brazil(Northeastern Brazil: Pernambuco) Click here to show the literature
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Paru-listrado Portuguese Brazil Click here to show the literature
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Paru-preto Portuguese Brazil(Northeastern Brazil: Ceará, Pernambuco and Rio Gra) Click here to show the literature
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Parum-dourado Portuguese Brazil(Ceará) Click here to show the literature
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Peixe frade Portuguese Brazil
Peixe-anjo Portuguese Brazil(Rio de Janeiro) Click here to show the literature
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Banderita Spanish Dominican Rp Click here to show the literature
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Cachama negra Spanish Nicaragua Click here to show the literature
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Cachama negra Spanish Spain Click here to show the literature
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Cachama negra Spanish Venezuela(Los Roques Island) Click here to show the literature
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Chivirica francesa Spanish Cuba Click here to show the literature
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Fransk Ängelfisk Swedish Sweden Click here to show the literature
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Classification:
Kingdom Animalia CoL
Phylum Chordata CoL
Class Actinopterygii FishBase
Order Perciformes FishBase
Family Pomacanthidae FishBase
Genus Pomacanthus FishBase
Distribution: Western Atlantic: Florida, USA and Bahamas to Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean (Ref. 26938). Eastern Atlantic: off Ascension Island (Ref. 7379) and St. Paul's Rocks (Ref. 13121).
Lifezones: Marine
Additional data: -
Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 19-May-2014
Source database: FishBase, Jan 2015   99%
Bibliographic citation: Froese R. & Pauly D. (eds) (2025). FishBase (version Jan 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2015 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Kunze T., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.
Online resource: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?ID=1118
CoL taxon LSID: urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:fd99c1c4-ac8e-11e3-805d-020044200006:col20150401