#2301 · 🐟 fish
French Angelfish
🇳🇱 Franse keizersvis ·Pomacanthus paru
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what is it?
The French angelfish ( Pomacanthus paru ) is a large angelfish of the family Pomacanthidae, found in the western Atlantic from New York and the Bahamas to Brazil, and also the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, including the Antilles, Roatan, and the eastern Atlantic from around Ascension Island and St. Paul's Rocks, at depths of between 2 and 100 m. Length is up to 41 cm.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 5,303 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Marcus Elieser Bloch in 1787 (239 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- French Angelfish
- Nederlands
- Franse keizersvis
- scientific name
- Pomacanthus paru
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Acanthuriformes
- family
- Pomacanthidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 5,303
- GBIF records in NL
- 3
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1787 by Marcus Elieser Bloch
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Pomacanthidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 49257, Wikidata Q369441, GBIF 2396447, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.