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Lemonpeel angelfish

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Kingdom
  
Order
  
Genus
  
Higher classification
  
Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
Scientific name
  
Centropyge flavissima

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Lemonpeel angelfish Lemonpeel Angelfish Marshall Isand

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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.

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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.

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References

Lemonpeel angelfish Wikipedia