Lemonpeel angelfish
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| Lemonpeel angelfish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Pomacanthidae |
| Genus: | Centropyge |
| Species: | C. flavissima |
| Binomial name | |
| Centropyge flavissima (Cuvier, 1831) | |
The lemonpeel angelfish (Centropyge flavissima) is an omnivorous marine angelfish. Its body is a distinctive bright yellow in colour, with a blue or white circle around the eyes and blue behind the operculum. Juveniles have a blue ring on each side. It is native to the Indo-Pacific region, where it lives in lagoons and reefs and eats marine algae.
In aquaria, it is suitable for fish only tanks. It may be kept in a reef tank, but with caution. This species is well known for nipping at stony coral polyps and clam mantles, and may even eat soft coral polyps and zoanthids.
References
- "Centropyge flavissima". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 6 June 2006.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Centropyge flavissima" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
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