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Updated 9/4/2023

Family Pomacanthidae

TROPICAL PACIFIC / HAWAII

Centropyge loriculus

Kaiwi Point, Hawaii, 60 feet

 

Waikiki Aquarium

 

 

Puako, Hawaii, 25 feet



Honokohau, Hawaii, 95 feet


Kahe Point, Oahu, 35 feet

FLAME ANGELFISH

Uncommon from Kauai to Maui among Finger Coral or rubble deeper than 25 feet, more numerous around the island of Hawai'i, and fairly common elsewhere in the Tropical Pacific.  Red with irregular black bars, Hawaiian fish have comparatively little orange or yellow ahead of the caudal peduncle.  An herbivorous species popular with aquarists.  Attains 4 inches.  Indonesia east to Hawai'i and French Polynesia.