Japanese angelfish
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| Centropyge interruptus (Tanaka, 1918) |
The Japanese angelfish or Japanese pygmy angelfish (Centropyge interruptus) is a very rare marine angelfish. It has an orangey yellow body with purplish blue spots completed with a bright yellow tail. The spots are larger towards the tail, and the bottom part the rear of the fish gradually becomes purple. The spots also turn from blue to purple towards the tail. They are native to the Ogasawara Islands south of Japan.
Little is known about this rare species.
[edit] References
- Centropyge interruptus (TSN 610475). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Accessed on 6 June 2006.
- "Centropyge interruptus". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. May 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
[edit] External links
- Henry C. Shultz, What a Darling Little Angel: The Genus Centropyge
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