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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyPomacanthidae
  5. ›genusHolacanthus
Holacanthus africanus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Guinean Angelfish

Holacanthus africanus Cadenat, 1951

Also calledNefrytek afrykanski (pol) · Peix àngel de Cap Verd (cat) · Peixe-anjo-africano (por) · Pesce angelo africano (ita) · Poisson-ange du Ghana (fra) · nefrytek gwinejski (pol) · pomec guinejský (ces) · Ángel de Guinea (spa) · Guinea-kejserfisk (dan)

First described in: Cadenat, J. (1951). Initiations Africaines. III. Poissons de mer du Sénégal. <em>Institute Francais d'Afrique Noire.</em> 1-345. [1950 on cover, apparently published in 1951.].

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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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5211464.