Editing Pomacanthidae (section)

== Taxonomy ==
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The Pomacanthidae is frequently placed within the large order Perciformes but taxonomists have also placed the family within the order Acanthuriformes, alongside the Chaetodontidae and Acanthuridae, among others.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/acanthuriformes1/ | title =Order ACANTHURIFORMES (part 1): Families LOBOTIDAE, POMACANTHIDAE, DREPANEIDAE and CHAETODONTIDAE | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | accessdate = 23 February 2021 | date = 21 July 2020 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}</ref> Other authorities have resolved the family as ''[[incertae sedis]]''.<ref name = deepfin>{{cite journal  | author1 = Ricardo Betancur-R | author2 = Edward O. Wiley | author3 = Gloria Arratia | author4 = Arturo Acero | author5 = Nicolas Bailly | author6 = Masaki Miya | author7 = Guillaume Lecointre | author8 = Guillermo Ortí | display-authors = 3 | year = 2017 | title = Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 17 | issue = 162 (2017) | page = 162 | doi = 10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3| pmid = 28683774 | pmc = 5501477 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2017BMCEE..17..162B }}</ref>

There are 88 species in eight genera:<ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase family|family=Pomacanthidae|month=December|2019}}</ref><ref name = CofF>{{Cof family | family = Pomacanthidae | access-date = 8 January 2021}}</ref> 

The more speciose genera are, generally speaking, widely distributed, however some species, especially of the Centropyge genus, are range restricted or endemic to specific islands or small island groups. 
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! Image !! Genus  !!  Number of Extant Species
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|[[File: Apolemichthys xanthurus.JPG |120px]]|| ''[[Apolemichthys]]'' <small>[[Maurice Burton|M. Burton]], 1934</small>||  8
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|[[File:Flame angelfish (Centropyge loricula).jpg|120px]]|| ''[[Centropyge]]'' <small>[[Johann Jakob Kaup|Kaup]], 1860</small> ||  35
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|[[File:Bluestriped angelfish Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis Side 1883px.jpg|120px]]|| ''[[Chaetodontoplus]]'' <small>[[Pieter Bleeker|Bleeker]], 1876</small> ||  13
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|[[File:Genicanthus personatus NOAA.jpg|120px]]|| ''[[Genicanthus]]'' <small>[[William Swainson|Swainson]], 1839</small> ||  10
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|[[File:Holacanthus ciliaris 2.jpg|120px]]|| ''[[Holacanthus]]'' <small>[[Bernard Germain de Lacépède|Lacépède]], 1803</small> || 8
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|[[File:Centropyge multifasciata.jpg|120x120px]]|| ''[[Paracentropyge]]'' <small>[[Warren E. Burgess|W. E. Burgess]], 1992</small> ||  1
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|[[File:Pomocanthus imperator facing right.jpg|120px]]|| ''[[Pomacanthus]]''  <small> Lacépède, 1802</small> ||  13
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|[[File:Pygoplites diacanthus 01.jpg|120px]]|| ''[[Pygoplites]]''  <small>[[Alec Fraser-Brunner|Fraser-Brunner]], 1933</small> ||  1
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