Centropyge
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 Twospined angelfish, Centropyge bispinosa
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Centropyge is a genus of marine angelfishes. Species in this group do not exceed 15cm in length. Although it is hard to identify their gender; females are shorter and more round finned (which is more obvious when looking at a group of specimens).[1]. Like clownfish, species in this genus are hermaphrodites, but change from female to male instead of male to female in clownfish. The dominant centropyge changes to a male to pair up with the other, which takes about 60 days.
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[edit] In aquaria
In most cases, they prefer reef tanks. The difficulty of keeping varies from species to species, rarity also. If multiple Centropyge are kept in a tank, they will fight against each other. Most species swim in most parts of the tank, others prefer the bottom parts or hiding in corals.
Species which difficulty is medium: Centropyge argi, Centropyge acanthops, Centropyge aurantonotus, Centropyge bispinosa.
Species for experts: Centropyge bicolor.
[edit] Species
- Orangeback angelfish, Centropyge acanthops (Norman, 1922).
- Cherubfish, Centropyge argi Woods & Kanazawa, 1951.
- Golden angelfish, Centropyge aurantia Randall & Wass, 1974.
- Flameback angelfish, Centropyge aurantonotus Burgess, 1974.
- Bicolor angelfish, Centropyge bicolor (Bloch, 1787).
- Twospined angelfish or coral beauty angelfish, Centropyge bispinosa (Günther, 1860).
- Peppermint angelfish, Centropyge boylei Pyle & Randall, 1992.
- Cocos-Keeling angelfish, Centropyge colini Smith-Vaniz & Randall, 1974.
- Blue Mauritius angelfish, Centropyge debelius Pyle, 1990.
- Blacktail angelfish, Centropyge eibli Klausewitz, 1963.
- Rusty angelfish, Centropyge ferrugata Randall & Burgess, 1972.
- Orange angelfish, Centropyge fisheri (Snyder, 1904).
- Whitetail angelfish, Centropyge flavicauda Fraser-Brunner, 1933.
- Yellowfin angelfish, Centropyge flavipectoralis Randall & Klausewitz, 1977.
- Lemonpeel angelfish, Centropyge flavissima (Cuvier, 1831).
- Yellow angelfish, Centropyge heraldi Woods & Schultz, 1953.
- Blackear angelfish, Centropyge hotumatua Randall & Caldwell, 1973.
- Japanese angelfish, Centropyge interruptus (Tanaka, 1918).
- Yellowhead angelfish, Centropyge joculator Smith-Vaniz & Randall, 1974.
- Flame angel, Centropyge loricula (Günther, 1874).
Flame angel, Centropyge loricula
- Multicolor angelfish, Centropyge multicolor Randall & Wass, 1974.
- Barred angelfish, Centropyge multifasciata (Smith & Radcliffe, 1911).
- Dusky angelfish, Centropyge multispinis (Playfair, 1867).
- Nahacky's angelfish, Centropyge nahackyi Kosaki, 1989.
- Narc angelfish, Centropyge narcosis Pyle & Randall, 1993.
- Blackspot angelfish, Centropyge nigriocella Woods & Schultz, 1953.
- Midnight angelfish, Centropyge nox (Bleeker, 1853).
- Russet angelfish, Centropyge potteri (Jordan & Metz, 1912).
- Resplendent angelfish, Centropyge resplendens Lubbock & Sankey, 1975.
- Mango angelfish, Centropyge shepardi Randall & Yasuda, 1979.
- Keyhole angelfish, Centropyge tibicen (Cuvier, 1831).
- Purplemask angelfish, Centropyge venustus (Yasuda & Tominaga, 1969).
- Pearlscale angelfish, Centropyge vrolikii (Bleeker, 1853).
[edit] References
- "Centropyge". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. January 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
