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Golden Angelfish
Centropyge aurantia
Golden angelfish (Centropyge aurantia), also known as golden pygmy angelfish or velvet dwarf angel, is a small marine ray-finned fish, a marine angelfish belonging to the family Pomacanthidae. It inhabits shallow reefs in the western Pacific Ocean.
From the article Golden angelfish on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The Golden angelfish is an overall reddish orange in colour marked with numerous vertical thin sinuous golden bars on its flanks. The dorsal, anal and caudal fins have a few dark submarginal bands. The eye is encircled by a dark bluish ring. The dorsal fin contains 14 spines and 16–17 soft rays while the anal fin has 3 spines and 17–18 soft rays. This species attains a maximum total length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in).
Range & habitat
The Golden angelfish is found in the Western Pacific Ocean. Its range extends from eastern Indonesia through Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands east to Fiji and Samoa. It occurs as far south as Australia where it has been recorded at Carter Reef off Queensland.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 96937.