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Bluespotted Angelfish
Chaetodontoplus caeruleopunctatus
Chaetodontoplus caeruleopunctatus is a marine angelfish from the Western-Pacific ocean. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 14 cm in length. It may eat at soft corals, stony corals, and mantles of tridacnid clams.
From the article Chaetodontoplus caeruleopunctatus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Chaetodontoplus caeruleopunctatus has a pale orange-brown head and anterior part of the body, while the remainder of the body is dusky brown to bluish-black marked with dense blue spots. The dorsal and anal fins are dark brown with blue margins, while the caudal fin is vivid yellow. The juveniles are dark brown, pearl black with a yellow stripe on the forward part of the back and another on the head and around the dorsal fin, their tail is yellow and white. The dorsal fin contains 13 spines and 17 soft rays while the anal fin has 3 spines and 17 soft rays. This species attains a maximum total length of 20 centimetres (7.9 in).
Range & habitat
Chaetodontoplus caeruleopunctatus is endemic to the Philippines where it is rarely recorded in the wild.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 97215.