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Midnight Angelfish
Centropyge nox
Centropyge nox, known commonly as the midnight angelfish or dusky angelfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a marine angelfish belonging to the family Pomacanthidae. It is found in the Western Pacific Ocean.
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Description
Centropyge nox is uniformly bluish-black in colour with an irregular yellow blotch immediately to the rear of the gill cover and above the pectoral fin. The dorsal fin contains 14–15 spines and 16–17 soft rays while the anal fin has 3 spines and 16–17 soft rays. This species attains a maximum total length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in).
Range & habitat
Centropyge nox Is found in the Western Pacific Ocean where it ranges from the Ryukyu Islands in the north to New Caledonia and the Great Barrier Reef in the south, west to Indonesia and east as far as the Caroline Islands.
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 96960.