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Japanese Angelfish




  Name Japanese angelfish
  Regnum Animal ia
  Phylum Chordata
  Classis Actinopterygii
  Ordo Perciformes
  Familia Pomacanthidae
  Genus '' Centropyge ''
  Species '''''C interruptus'''''
  Binomial ''Centropyge interruptus''
  Binomial Authority (Tanaka, 1918)


The Japanese angelfish or '''Japanese pygmy angelfish''' (''Centropyge interruptus'') is a very rare Marine Angelfish . It has an orangey yellow body with purplish blue spots completed with a bright yellow tail. The spots are larger towards the tail, and the bottom part the rear of the fish gradually becomes purple. The spots also turn from blue to purple towards the tail. They are native to the Ogasawara Islands south of Japan.

Little is known about this rare species.


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