FB-68559 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68559 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Acropomatiformes Pempheridae Pempheris Pempheris cuprea Randall & Victor, 2014 Cocos pygmy angelfish Centropyge flavissima (non Cuvier, 1831) 2018-01-16 2018-10-11 Allen, G.R., R. Steene and M. Allen0 A guide to angelfishes and butterflyfishes. Odyssey Publishing/Tropical Reef Research. 250 p. (Ref. 47838) Allen, G., R. Steene, P. Humann and N. DeLoach0 Reef fish identification - tropical Pacific. Florida, New World Publications, Inc. 480 p. (Ref. 52881) Allen, G.R. and M.V. Erdmann0 Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth, Australia: Universitiy of Hawai'i Press, Volumes I-III. Tropical Reef Research. (Ref. 90102) Patzner, R.A.0 Reproductive strategies of fish. pp. 311-350. In Rocha, M.J., A. Arukwe and B.G. Kapoor (eds). Fish reproduction: cytology, biology and ecology. Science Publisher, Inc. Oxford. 631 p. (Ref. 101194) Shen, K.-N., C.-W. Chang, E. Delrieu-Trottin and P. Borsa0 Lemonpeel (<i>Centropyge flavissima</i>) and yellow (<i>C. heraldi</i>) pygmy angelfishes each consist of two geographically isolated sibling species. Mar. Biodiv. (Ref. 116591) DiBattista, J.D., M.R. Gaither, J.-P.A. Hobbs, L.A. Rocha and B.W. Bowen0 Angelfishes, paper tigers, and the devilish taxonomy of the <i>Centropyge flavissima</i> complex. Journal of Heredity 2016:647-653. (Ref. 116895) Hobbs, J.-P.A. and G.R. Allen0 Hybridisation among coral reef fishes at Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Raffles Bull. Zool. Suppl 30:220-226. (Ref. 116896) FB-DiagnosticDescr-68568 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2018-01-18 00:00:00 2018-01-18 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68568 This species is distinguished by the following characters: colour of live individual is lemonpeel yellow with blue margined gill operculum, spine and fins; conspicuous blue iris and faint blue eye ring surrounding the eye; colour in alcohol is uniformly yellowish with dark eye and dark posterior dorsal, anal and caudal fin margins; differs from C. flavissima (and 2 other species of this specis complex) by nucleotide quasisynapomorphies at the CO1 locus, these include G at both nucleotide sites 247 and 366 of the gene (Ref. 116591). Shen, K.-N., C.-W. Chang, E. Delrieu-Trottin and P. Borsa 2016 Lemonpeel (<i>Centropyge flavissima</i>) and yellow (<i>C. heraldi</i>) pygmy angelfishes each consist of two geographically isolated sibling species. Mar. Biodiv. (Ref. 116591) FB-Distribution-68568 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2018-01-18 00:00:00 2025-04-08 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68568 Eastern Indian Ocean: Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island. Shen, K.-N., C.-W. Chang, E. Delrieu-Trottin and P. Borsa 2016 Lemonpeel (<i>Centropyge flavissima</i>) and yellow (<i>C. heraldi</i>) pygmy angelfishes each consist of two geographically isolated sibling species. Mar. Biodiv. (Ref. 116591) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-68568 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2018-01-18 00:00:00 2018-01-19 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68568 reef-associated; marine