Lemonpeel angelfish
Amazing fact
Young lemonpeel angelfish have a black eyespot edged in blue on their sides.
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Young lemonpeel angelfish have a black eyespot edged in blue on their sides.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Lemonpeel angelfish
- Scientific name
- Centropyge flavissima
- Japanese name
- コガネヤッコ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Pomacanthidae
- Genus
- Centropyge
Where the name “Lemonpeel angelfish” comes from
The scientific species name flavissima means "the most yellow" in Latin.
Museums VictoriaHow the Lemonpeel angelfish lives
It feeds mainly on thread-like algae. It lives in coral-rich waters, close to shelter. It is often seen in groups made up of a male and females. It changes sex from female to male.
Museums VictoriaTetiaroa SocietyBasic data
- Range
- West-central Pacific
Where the Lemonpeel 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
- 日本語
- コガネヤッコ
- 简体中文
- 黄刺尻鱼
- 繁體中文
- 黃刺尻魚
- Español
- Ángel limón
- Français
- Centropyge tout jaune
- Deutsch
- Zitronen-Zwergkaiserfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-anjo-pele-de-limão
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Injel cempaka
- Русский
- Золотой центропиг
- ไทย
- ปลาสุดสาคร
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 — コガネヤッコChecked: 2026-11-04
- Tetiaroa Society — Lemonpeel AngelfishChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria — Lemonpeel Angelfish, Centropyge flavissima (Cuvier 1831)Checked: 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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