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Flameback Angelfish
Centropyge aurantonotus
The flameback angelfish or flameback pygmy angelfish (Centropyge aurantonotus) is an omnivorous marine angelfish, with blue body and yellow to orange colouration from the face to middle or end of dorsal fin. It is easily confused with the orangeback angelfish (Centropyge acanthops), but in the latter the yellow to orange colouration extends to cover the entire back. It is native to the southern Caribbean Sea and the coastal waters of Brazil; it reaches a maximum length...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 96938.