Cocopeel Angelfish
Centropyge cocosensis Shen, Chang, Delrieu-Trottin & Borsa, 2016
Also calledPeix àngel de pela cítrica (cat) · Peixe-anjo-amarelo-de-Cocos-Keeling (por) · Pesce angelo pigmeo citrico (ita) · Poisson-ange nain des îles Cocos (fra)
First described in: Shen, K.-N.; Chang, C.-W.; Delrieu-Trottin, E.; Borsa, P. (2016). Lemonpeel (Centropyge flavissima) and yellow (C. heraldi) pygmy angelfishes each consist of two geographically isolated sibling species. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 47(3): 831-845.
Centropyge cocosensis, commonly known as the Cocos pygmy angelfish, is a species of marine angelfish belonging to the family Pomacanthidae.
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Description
Centropyge cocosensis is a brightly colored angelfish that resembles the lemonpeel angelfish (Centropyge flavissima). As a recently discovered angelfish, this species is the colour of a lemonpeel angel, with a blue margined gill operculum, spine and fins; a conspicuous blue iris and faint blue eye ring surrounding the eye. In alcohol, its colour is uniformly yellowish with dark eye and dark posterior dorsal, anal and caudal fin margins; which differs from C. flavissima (and 2 other species of this species complex) by nucleotide quasisynapomorphies at the CO1 locus, these include G at both nucleotide sites 247 and 366 of the gene. Little is known about this fish, including maximum length, breeding habits, and food preferences.
Range & habitat
Centropyge cocosensis is known only from Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Eastern Indian Ocean.
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