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Queen Angelfish Sep 10, Buddy&#039;s Reef dive site, Bonaire.<br />
Tail and pectoral fins entirely yellow. Black spot on forehead has electric blue spots and is surrounded by narrow, electric blue ring. Large blue spot at base of pectoral fin. Adults develop short spines on the margin. The color of large adults is purplish blue with yellow-orange rims to the scales; head above eye dark blue, below greenish yellow; mouth, chin, throat, chest and abdomen purplish blue.<br />
Found on coral reefs. Generally occurs solitarily or in pairs. Moves gracefully between seafans, seawhips, and corals. The species feeds almost exclusively on sponges supplemented by small amounts of algae, tunicates, hydroids and bryozoans. Young pick ectoparasites from other fishes.<br />
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Queen Angelfish

Sep 10, Buddy's Reef dive site, Bonaire.
Tail and pectoral fins entirely yellow. Black spot on forehead has electric blue spots and is surrounded by narrow, electric blue ring. Large blue spot at base of pectoral fin. Adults develop short spines on the margin. The color of large adults is purplish blue with yellow-orange rims to the scales; head above eye dark blue, below greenish yellow; mouth, chin, throat, chest and abdomen purplish blue.
Found on coral reefs. Generally occurs solitarily or in pairs. Moves gracefully between seafans, seawhips, and corals. The species feeds almost exclusively on sponges supplemented by small amounts of algae, tunicates, hydroids and bryozoans. Young pick ectoparasites from other fishes.
http://www.fishbase.org/summary/3609

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  1. Can't thank you enough for your explosion of marine observations. You inspired me to do some cleanup, I've now supplied common names for all these taxons:
    https://www.jungledragon.com/wildlife/browse/animalia/chordata/actinopterygii/perciformes
    Posted 7 years ago
    1. Good! I have noticed that when the site uploads the name from Wikipedia sometimes it adds the species nqme qs common name. After your recommendation I edit this when it happens. In other cases some species do not seemto have an obvious common name...what do we do then? Posted 7 years ago
      1. If there is no accepted common name, we simply use the binomial name as the common name. Posted 7 years ago

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The queen angelfish is an angelfish commonly found near reefs in the warmer sections of the western Atlantic Ocean. Other common names include blue angelfish, golden angelfish, queen angel, and yellow angelfish.

Similar species: Butterflyfishes, Angelfishes
Species identified by Patomarazul
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Uploaded Dec 30, 2017. Captured Sep 10, 2017 20:32 in Buddy Dive Resort, Kralendijk, Caribbean Netherlands.
  • XZ-1
  • f/4.0
  • 1/125s
  • ISO100
  • 6mm