Lemon Peel
Centropyge flavissima
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Acanthuriformes
- Family
- Pomacanthidae
- Genus
- Centropyge
Where to Find
Found in 25 diving areas across 14 countries and 3 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 52 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 52 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 5 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 46 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 36 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 32 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 19 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 36 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 39 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 164 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 3 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 48 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 43 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 1 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 15 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 30 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1900 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 183 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 77 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 150 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 8 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 29 records