Marine angelfish
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| Marine angelfish are perciform fish of the family Pomacanthidae. They are found on shallow reefs in the tropical Atlantic, Indian, and mostly western Pacific oceans. The family contains seven genera and approximately 86 species. They should not be confused with the freshwater angelfish, tropical cichlids of the Amazon Basin.
They most closely resemble the butterflyfishes, a related family of similarly showy reef fish. Marine angelfish are distinguished from butterflyfish by the presence of strong preopercle spines (part of the gill covers) in the former. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry Get back to Perciformes | |||
| Bicolor angelfish | Blue ring angelfish | Bluestriped Angelfish | Emperor angelfish |
| Flame angelfish | Orangeback angelfish | Peppermint angelfish | Royal angelfish |
| semicircled angelfish | Sixbar angelfish | Yellowbar angelfish | |
