Lemonpeel angelfish

Centropyge flavissima

The lemonpeel angelfish 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.
Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionChordata
ClassActinopterygii
OrderAcanthuriformes
FamilyPomacanthidae
GenusCentropyge
SpeciesC. flavissima
Photographed in
French Polynesia