Lemonpeel angelfish

Lemonpeel angelfish
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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