Sealife guideThe pearl-scaled angelfishCentropyge vrolikii
Taxonomy
- Common name: Pearl-scaled angelfish, pearlscale angelfish
- French name: Poisson ange nain à écailles perlées
- Scientific name: Centropyge vrolikii (Bleeker, 1853)
- Family name: Pomacanthidae
- Order name: Acanthuriformes
- Class name: Actinopterygii
Description
The pearl-scaled angelfish displays a color gradient from white to black from head to tail, with a slight yellowish tint.
Range
The pearl-scaled angelfish inhabits the waters of the western Indo-Pacific region, from Christmas island in Australia to the east, to Vanuatu islands and the Marshall islands. From north to south, this species is found from southern Japan and Taiwan in the north to Lord Howe island off the coast of Australia in the south.
Did you know ?
The pearl-scaled angelfish is one of the largest in size, along with the keyhole angelfish (Centropyge tibicen), among the pygmy angelfish species of the Centropyge genus.
The pearl-scaled angelfish is listed as many other marine species within The
IUCN Red List of threatened species. The pearl-scaled angelfish appears in the
IUCN Red List since 2010 within the category Least Concern !
Within the same genus
Two spined angelfish
(Centropyge bispinosa)
Bicolor angelfish
(Centropyge bicolor)
Lemonpeel angelfish
(Centropyge flavissima)
Blacktail angelfish
(Centropyge eibli)
Flame angelfish
(Centropyge loriculus)
Rusty angelfish
(Centropyge ferrugata)
Within the same family
Multibarred angelfish
(Paracentropyge multifasciata)
Blueface angelfish
(Pomacanthus xanthometopon)
Yellow blotch angelfish
(Pomacanthus maculosus)
Gray angelfish
(Pomacanthus arcuatus)
Blackstriped angelfish
(Genicanthus lamarck)
Black-spot angelfish
(Genicanthus melanospilos)
Queen angelfish
(Holacanthus ciliaris)
Vermiculated angelfish
(Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus)
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(Elacatinus horsti)
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The marine species from Indo-Pacific
Bicolor angelfish
(Centropyge bicolor)
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Lemonpeel angelfish
(Centropyge flavissima)
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(Pseudobiceros bedfordi)
Thornback cowfish
(Lactoria fornasini)
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