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Description
- 📏 up to 14 cm
- 🌊 reef slopes, 5 to 40 m
The lemonpeel angelfish is entirely lemon yellow, with a blue ring around the eye. It lives in small harems in branching corals, where the dominant male protects several females. If the male disappears, the largest female becomes male.
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In Tahitian: paraharaha.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Ange peau de citron.
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