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Longnose butterflyfish
Forcipiger longrostris
Distribution: Indian Ocean. Description: Fish Family butterflies platform with a rectangular body with rounded edges, and its size varies from 15 to 20 cm. The mouth is shaped elongated rostrum. Her dress is white degrading towards yellow on the contours of the body. A vertical black triangular area covers the eyes. The body is decorated at the anal fin of a round black spot. A thin black line separates the body from the caudal fin is transparent. Housing: Generally lives in pairs in lagoons, but also offshore in areas rich in coral, to a depth of 60 m. Food: It feeds mainly on soft corals, small crustaceans. |
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Taxonomic classification
| Phylum: | Chordata | Class: | Actinopterygii | Sub class: | Neopterygii | To print in "PDF" format |
| Order: | Perciformes | Sub order: | Percoidei | Family: | Chaetodontidae | |
| Genus: | forcipiger | Species: | longirostris | Descriptor: | Broussonet, 1782 |  |