Centropyge

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iCentropyge

Twospined angelfish, Centropyge bispinosa

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Pomacanthidae
Genus:	Centropyge Kaup, 1860

Species

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Centropyge is a genus of marine angelfishes. Species in this group do not exceed 15cm in length. It is impossible to identify their gender by eye. Alike clownfish, species in this genus are protandrous hermaphrodites, but changes from female to male instead of male to female in clownfish. The dominant centropyge changes to a male to pair up with the other, which takes about 60 days.

1 In aquaria
2 Species
3 References
4 External links

[edit] In aquaria

In most cases, they prefer reef tanks. The difficulty of keeping varies from species to species, rarity also. If multiple Centropyge are kept in a tank, they will fight against each other. Most species swim in most parts of the tank, others prefer the bottom parts or hiding in corals.

Species which difficulty is medium: Centropyge argi, Centropyge acanthops, Centropyge aurantonotus, Centropyge bispinosus.

Species for experts: Centropyge bicolor.

[edit] Species

Orangeback angelfish, Centropyge acanthops (Norman, 1922).
Cherubfish, Centropyge argi Woods & Kanazawa, 1951.
Golden angelfish, Centropyge aurantia Randall & Wass, 1974.
Flameback angelfish, Centropyge aurantonotus Burgess, 1974.
Bicolor angelfish, Centropyge bicolor (Bloch, 1787).
Twospined angelfish or coral beauty angelfish, Centropyge bispinosa (Günther, 1860).
Peppermint angelfish, Centropyge boylei Pyle & Randall, 1992.
Cocos-Keeling angelfish, Centropyge colini Smith-Vaniz & Randall, 1974.
Blue Mauritius angelfish, Centropyge debelius Pyle, 1990.
Blacktail angelfish, Centropyge eibli Klausewitz, 1963.
Rusty angelfish, Centropyge ferrugata Randall & Burgess, 1972.
Orange angelfish, Centropyge fisheri (Snyder, 1904).
Whitetail angelfish, Centropyge flavicauda Fraser-Brunner, 1933.
Yellowfin angelfish, Centropyge flavipectoralis Randall & Klausewitz, 1977.
Lemonpeel angelfish, Centropyge flavissima (Cuvier, 1831).
Yellow angelfish, Centropyge heraldi Woods & Schultz, 1953.
Blackear angelfish, Centropyge hotumatua Randall & Caldwell, 1973.
Japanese angelfish, Centropyge interruptus (Tanaka, 1918).
Yellowhead angelfish, Centropyge joculator Smith-Vaniz & Randall, 1974.
Flame angel, Centropyge loricula (Günther, 1874).

Flame angel, Centropyge loricula
Multicolor angelfish, Centropyge multicolor Randall & Wass, 1974.
Barred angelfish, Centropyge multifasciata (Smith & Radcliffe, 1911).
Dusky angelfish, Centropyge multispinis (Playfair, 1867).
Nahacky's angelfish, Centropyge nahackyi Kosaki, 1989.
Narc angelfish, Centropyge narcosis Pyle & Randall, 1993.
Blackspot angelfish, Centropyge nigriocella Woods & Schultz, 1953.
Midnight angelfish, Centropyge nox (Bleeker, 1853).
Russet angelfish, Centropyge potteri (Jordan & Metz, 1912).
Resplendent angelfish, Centropyge resplendens Lubbock & Sankey, 1975.
Mango angelfish, Centropyge shepardi Randall & Yasuda, 1979.
Keyhole angelfish, Centropyge tibicen (Cuvier, 1831).
Purplemask angelfish, Centropyge venustus (Yasuda & Tominaga, 1969).
Pearlscale angelfish, Centropyge vrolikii (Bleeker, 1853).