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Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish

Forcipiger flavissimus

Bislamabataflaefis— names this kind of animal, not this species alone

Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish — photo 1 of 4
Photo 1 of 4 · Nhobgood · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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Habitat
Reef
Max size
22 cm
Depth
0-145 m
Family
Chaetodontidae

The yellow longnose butterflyfish, also known as the forceps butterflyfish or forcepsfish, is a species of marine fish in the family Chaetodontidae.

Adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Side by side, with what tells them apart.

Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish
This oneYellow Longnose Butterflyfish
Longnose Butterflyfish
Look-alikeLongnose Butterflyfish

Both are yellow with a black triangle over the head and a long, forceps-like snout. Longnose Butterflyfish has an even longer snout and rows of small black spots on the breast; Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish has no breast spots and a more curved gill cover. Only the Longnose is ever seen in an all-brown or all-black form.

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