Black Angelfish
Chaetodontoplus niger Chan, 1966
Also calledKurokinchakudai (jpn) · Peix àngel negre (cat) · Peixe-anjo-preto (por) · Pesce angelo nero (ita) · pomec skaliskový (ces) · クロキンチャクダイ (jpn)
First described in: Chan, W. L. (1966). Two new pomacanthinid angelfishes from the Macclesfield Bank, South China Sea. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 13).</em> 8 (90) (for 1965): 325-334. [Date of publication confirmed by Evenhuis 2003:56 [ref. 27365].].
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”.
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
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Chaetodontoplus niger in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2396578.