Taxonavigation

Familia: Pomacanthidae
Genus: Pygoplites
Species: Pygoplites diacanthus

Name

Pygoplites diacanthus (Boddaert, 1772)

Type locality: Amboina [Ambon Bay, Ambon Island, Moluccas/Maluku, Indonesia, Banda Sea]

Holotype: MJAS (whereabouts unknown)

References

• Boddaert, P. 1772: Van den Tweedornigen Klipfisch. De Chaetodonte diacantho descripto atque accuratissima icone illustrata. M. Magérus, Amsterdam. 1 pl.: 43 pp.
• Coleman, R.R., Eble, J.A., DiBattista, J.D., Rocha, L.A., Randall, J.E., Berumen, M.L. & Bowen, B.W. 2016. Regal phylogeography: Range-wide survey of the marine angelfish Pygoplites diacanthus reveals evolutionary partitions between the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 100: 243–253. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.005 Reference page. 
• Fraser-Brunner, A. 1933: A revision of the chaetodont fishes of the subfamily Pomacanthinae. Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London 1933 pt. 3 (30): 543–599, Pl. 1. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1933.tb01608.x

Vernacular names

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