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The lemonpeel angelfish (Centropyge flavissima) is an omnivorous marine angelfish. Its body is a distinctive bright yellow in colour, with a blue or white circle around the eyes and blue behind the operculum. Juveniles have a blue ring on each side. It is native to the Indo-Pacific region, where it lives in lagoons and reefs and eats marine algae.

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1. (c) Mark Rosenstein, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Mark Rosenstein
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centropyge_flavissima

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• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
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