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Bony fish

Queen Angelfish

Holacanthus ciliaris

Also known as: Blue Angelfish, Golden Angelfish, Queen Angel, Yellow Angelfish

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2010
LIFE STAGE
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Juvenile
@JolineCuracao · Curaçao - Piscadera, Curaçao · March 20201 / 3

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Overview

Juveniles are dark blue with three bright blue to white bars, the second clearly curved, plus yellow lips, a yellow tail and a yellow patch around the chest. They live alone around finger sponges and coral, where they set up cleaning stations and pick parasites off larger fish.

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How to identify

COLOURS
Pattern
stripes
Behaviour
pairssolitaryterritorial

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03

Habitat & where to find it

Where the juvenile stage lives, and where its photos were taken.

  • Range · Western Atlantic, Caribbean, Eastern Central Atlantic
  • Country only · 3
RANGE
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Juvenile photos 3

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Discussion

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    ALL STAGES
    FOR THE MARINE-BIOLOGY CURIOUS

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderAcanthuriformes
    5. familyPomacanthidae
    6. genusHolacanthus
    7. speciesHolacanthus ciliaris (Linnaeus, 1758)

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