Bicolor angelfish
Amazing fact
The bicolor angelfish swims near the bottom and stays close to holes and crevices that shelter it.
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The bicolor angelfish swims near the bottom and stays close to holes and crevices that shelter it.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Bicolor angelfish
- Scientific name
- Centropyge bicolor
- Japanese name
- ソメワケヤッコ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Pomacanthidae
- Genus
- Centropyge
A fish found from Sagami Bay and Japan's southern islands to the eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific.
How the Bicolor angelfish lives
It lives in rubbly areas in lagoons and on reef slopes. It eats algae, small crustaceans and worms near the seabed.
Australian MuseumBasic data
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, eastern Indian Ocean to western Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Bicolor 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
- ソメワケヤッコ
- 简体中文
- 二色刺尻鱼
- 繁體中文
- 二色刺尻魚
- Español
- Ángel enano bicolor
- Français
- Poisson-ange bicolore
- Deutsch
- Blaugelber Zwergkaiserfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-anjo-bicolor
- Italiano
- Pesce angelo bicolore
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Injel biru-kuning
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá bướm hai màu
- Русский
- Двухцветный центропиг
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 — ソメワケヤッコChecked: 2026-11-04
- Australian Museum — Bicolor Angelfish, Centropyge bicolor (Bloch, 1787)Checked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria — Bicolor Angelfish, Centropyge bicolor (Bloch 1787)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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