Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Chaetodontidae > Forcipiger > Forcipiger flavissimus

Forcipiger flavissimus (Big long-nosed butterflyfish; Common longnose butterflyfish; Forceps fish; Forcepsfish; Long nose butterfly; Longnose butterfly fish; Longnose butterflyfish; Long-nose butterflyfish; Longnosed butterflyfish; Long-nosed butterflyfish; Long-nosed coralfish; Longsnouted butterflyfish; Yellow long nose butterfly)

Synonyms: Foreipiger flavissimus
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Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow longnose butterflyfish or forceps butterflyfish, Forcipiger flavissimus, is a species of marine fish in the family Chaetodontidae. The yellow longnose butterflyfish is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific area from the eastern coast of Africa to Hawaii, Red Sea included, and is also found in the eastern Pacific Ocean from Baja California to the Revillagigedo Islands and the Galapagos. It is a small fish which grows up to 22 cm in length. This species can also be found in the aquarium trade.
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Attributes

Maximum Longevity [1]  18 years

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Archipelago de Colon Biosphere Reserve 34336011 Galapagos Islands, Ecuador  
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Aponurus chelebesoi[2]
Euryhaliotrema berenguelae[3]
Euryhaliotrema triangulovagina[3]
Mitotrema anthostomatum[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0