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. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=646767. Retrieved 6 June 2006. 
• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Centropyge flavissima" in FishBase. May 2006 version.

External links

• Centropyge.net info page
• Reefpedia.com info page