Centropyge tibicen

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Centropyge tibicen
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Pomacanthidae
Genus: Centropyge
Species:
C. tibicen
Binomial name
Centropyge tibicen
(Cuvier, 1831)
Synonyms [2]

Holacanthus tibicenCuvier, 1831

Centropyge tibicen, the keyhole angelfish, black angelfish, whitespot angelfish or puller angelfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a marine angelfish belonging to the family Pomacanthidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific region.

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Description

Centropyge tibicen is mainly black in colour, the adults have an elongated vertical black blotch in the centre of the upper flanks. Smaller fish are mainly black with a white vertical bar which changes to a central blotch and becomes highly variable in form and extent. The dorsal and anal fins have a blue line just below their margin. Much of the pelvic and the front part of the anal fin are yellow. The caudal fin has a blue line which is positioned submarginally. The dorsal fin contains 14 spines and 15-16 soft rays while the anal fin has 3 spines and 16-17 soft rays. This species attains a maximum total length of 19 centimetres (7.5 in). [2]

Distribution

Centropyge tibicen Is found in the Indo-Pacific region. It occurs from northwestern coast of Australia and Christmas Island east through the Indo-Australian Archipelago to Vanuatu and Tonga in the east. They extend as far north as, southern Japan and Taiwan and to Lord Howe Island. [1]

Habitat and biology

Centropyge tibicen is found at depths between 4 and 35 metres (13 and 115 ft). [1] It is an uncommon species of areas where there is a mixture of coral and rubble on both lagoon and seaward reefs. It is herbivorous and algae dominates its diet. It lives in harems of 3-7 fishes. [2] This species is able to change sex from female to male, when there is no male in a harem, one of the females changes sex. [3]

Systematics

Centropyge tibicen was first formally described as Holocanthus tibicen in 1831 by the French anatomist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832). [4] The specific name tibicen means “trumpeter”, this is thought to be alluding to the name given to this species by the Dutch naturalist François Valentijn (1666-1727) in 1726, Japonfche Trompetter. [5] When Johann Jakob Kaup described the genus Centropyge in 1860 he named Cuvier’s H. tibicen as the type species. [6] As the type species it is placed in the subgenus Centropyge. [5]

Utilisation

Centropyge tibicen is frequently found in the aquarium trade. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Pyle, R. & Myers, R. (2010). "Centropyge tibicen". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2010: e.T165901A6161055. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T165901A6161055.en . Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Centropyge tibicen" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
  3. ↑ "Centropyge tibicen". reefapp,net. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  4. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Centropyge". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  5. 1 2 Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (21 July 2020). "Order ACANTHURIFORMES (part 1): Families LOBOTIDAE, POMACANTHIDAE, DREPANEIDAE and CHAETODONTIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  6. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Pomacanthidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 1 February 2021.


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