Orangeback Angelfish, Centropyge acanthops (Norman 1922)

Other Names: African Cherubfish, African Pygmy Angelfish, Flameback Angelfish, Jumping Bean

Summary:

A dark bluish to blackish angelfish with the head, upper sides, dorsal, and caudal fins golden yellow to orange, and numerous close-set purple spots on the anal fin.

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Dianne J. Bray, Centropyge acanthops in Fishes of Australia, accessed 25 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/5163

Orangeback Angelfish, Centropyge acanthops (Norman 1922)

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Distribution	Recorded from the Australian territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean. Elsewhere, the species occurs in the Western Indian Ocean from East Africa, South Africa, Mozambique Channel, Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Maldives and Chagos Archipelago.
Species Citation	Holacanthus acanthops Norman 1922, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (9)9(52): 318. Type locality: Durban/eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, southwestern Indian Ocean.
Author	Dianne J. Bray

Orangeback Angelfish, Centropyge acanthops (Norman 1922)

References

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Fricke, R. 2010. Centropyge acanthops. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. . Downloaded on 14 February 2015.

Heemstra, P.C. E. Heemstra. 2004. Coastal fishes of southern Africa. NISC and SAIAB. i-xxiv + 1-488.

Hobbs, J-P.A., S .J. Newman, G.E.A. Mitsopoulos, M.J. Travers, C.L. Skepper, J.J. Gilligan, G.R. Allen, H.J. Choat & A.M. Ayling. 2014. Fishes of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands: new records, community composition and biogeographic significance. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 30: 203–219. PDF

Hobbs, J-P.A., L. van Herwerden, D.R. Jerry, G.P. Jones & P.L. Munday. 2013. High Genetic Diversity in Geographically Remote Populations of Endemic and Widespread Coral Reef Angelfishes (genus: Centropyge). Diversity 5: 39-50. doi:10.3390/d5010039 (open access)

Norman, J.R. 1922. Three new fishes from Zululand and Natal, collected by Mr. H. W. Bell Marley; with additions to the fish fauna of Natal. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)9(52): 318-322.

Schindler, I. & Schneidewind, F. 2004. Revision of Centropyge fisheri (Snyder, 1904) (Teleostei, Pomacanthidae). Zeitschrift für Fischkunde 7(1): 31-42. (considered a synonym of C. fisheri)