WoRMS taxon details

Genicanthus caudovittatus (Günther, 1860)

211794  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:211794)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Description Feeds on planktonic food several meters above the bottom. A single male is usually seen with several females, commonly on...  
Description Feeds on planktonic food several meters above the bottom. A single male is usually seen with several females, commonly on steep slopes<111>. Males develop as a result of sex change of females<307>. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Genicanthus caudovittatus (Günther, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211794 on 2024-03-29
Date
action
by
1997-02-24 18:26:33Z
created
1998-06-18 06:08:16Z
changed
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed

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basis of record Smith, J. L. B. (1955). The Fishes of the Family Pomacanthidae in the Western Indian Ocean. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 12).</em> 8 (89) (art. 46): 377-384, Pls. 4-5. [details]   

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Description Feeds on planktonic food several meters above the bottom. A single male is usually seen with several females, commonly on steep slopes<111>. Males develop as a result of sex change of females<307>. [details]
LanguageName 
English zebra angelfish  [details]