Flame angelfish
Amazing fact
Flame angelfish can pass through narrow coral crevices with their flattened bodies.
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Flame angelfish can pass through narrow coral crevices with their flattened bodies.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Flame angelfish
- Scientific name
- Centropyge loriculus
- Japanese name
- フレームエンゼルフィッシュ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Pomacanthidae
- Genus
- Centropyge
Its bright red body has black vertical stripes, and its dorsal, anal and tail fins are edged in blue.
How the Flame angelfish lives
They spend much of their time picking at food among coral and rocks. During breeding, males and females usually release eggs and sperm into the water at dusk. Fertilized eggs drift with ocean currents. Larvae that develop from the eggs eventually settle on reefs.
Toronto ZooBasic data
- Diet
- Small crustaceans, algae, and other foods
- Range
- Pacific Ocean, mainly tropical waters
Where the Flame angelfish has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 简体中文
- 火焰神仙
- 繁體中文
- 冑刺尻魚
- Español
- Ángel flama
- Français
- Poisson-ange nain flamme
- Deutsch
- Flammen-Zwergkaiserfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-anjo-fogo
- Italiano
- Pesce angelo fuoco
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — フレームエンゼルフィッシュChecked: 2026-11-04
- Toronto Zoo — Flame AngelfishChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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