Coral Beauty

Centropyge bispinosa

Fish
IUCN: Least concern

Usual depth5–25 m
Water temperature20–30 °C
Best monthsMarch, April, and July
How commonCommon

Photo credit: (c) Rickard Zerpe, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

About this species

The twospined angelfish, also known as the dusky angelfish, or coral beauty, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a marine angelfish belonging to the family Pomacanthidae. They are found in the Indo-Pacific.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Twospined angelfish”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 83 records
February: 442 records
March: 663 records
April: 594 records
May: 160 records
June: 202 records
July: 483 records
August: 346 records
September: 291 records
October: 340 records
November: 272 records
December: 90 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 5–25 m · Deepest record: 747 m

0–10 m: 966 records
10–20 m: 905 records
20–30 m: 1,091 records
30–40 m: 27 records
40–50 m: 1 records
50–60 m: 1 records
60–70 m: 0 records
70–80 m: 0 records
80–90 m: 0 records
90–100 m: 0 records
100–110 m: 0 records
110+ m: 2 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 20–30 °C

20–22 °C: 1 records
22–24 °C: 1 records
24–26 °C: 85 records
26–28 °C: 214 records
28–30 °C: 414 records

Photos

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(c) 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Roger Rittmaster, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) desertnaturalist, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Pauline Walsh Jacobson, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
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(c) Luke Lythgoe, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Coral Beauty, Coral Beauty Angel, Dusky Angelfish, Two-spined Angelfish, Twospined Angelfish

Names in 3 more languages

French: Allemand, Boeteur, Poisson ange à deux épines, Poisson-ange à deux épines, Poisson-ange nain à deux épines, Poisson ange sombre
Japanese: Ruriyakko, ルリヤッコ
Simplified Chinese: 双棘刺尻鱼, 珊瑚美人, 琉璃神仙魚, 藍閃電, 雙棘刺尻魚

Other scientific names: Centropyge bispinosus, Centropyge hispinosus, Holacanthus bispinosus

Similar species

Lemon Peel
Centropyge flavissima
Bicolor angelfish
Centropyge bicolor
Damsel Angelfish
Centropyge fisheri
Golden Angelfish
Centropyge heraldi
Black Angelfish
Centropyge tibicen
Angel abu polos
Centropyge vrolikii

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
5,011 open-data records from 1860 to 2023.
Species data updated October 26, 2026.

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