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GBIF·2396571speciesAnimalia63 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyPomacanthidae
  5. ›genusApolemichthys
Apolemichthys kingi
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Tiger Angelfish

Apolemichthys kingi Heemstra, 1984

Also calledPeix àngel tigre (cat) · Peixe-anjo-tigre (por) · Pesce angelo tigre (ita) · Tiger-Rauchkaiserfisch (deu) · pomec Kingův (ces) · Tigerkejserfisk (dan)

First described in: Heemstra, P. C. (1984). Apolemichthys kingi, a new species of angelfish (Pomacanthidae) from South Africa, with comments on the classification of angelfishes and a checklist of the pomacanthids of the western Indian Ocean. <em>The J.L.B Smith Institute of Ichthyology Special Publication.</em> No. 35: 1-17.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the stacks

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Every page naming Apolemichthys kingi in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2396571.