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Forcipiger
Genus of tropical fish. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Forcipiger is a genus of fish in the family Chaetodontidae, the butterflyfishes. It is distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific region. The name of this genus means “bearing forceps” and is a reference to the long, slender snouts of the species in this genus.[2]
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Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:[3][4]
- Forcipiger flavissimus D. S. Jordan & E. A. McGregor, 1898 – yellow longnose butterflyfish
- Forcipiger longirostris (Broussonet, 1782) – longnose butterflyfish
- Forcipiger wanai G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Sbrocco, 2012[4]
Some authorities recognise a fourth species, F. cyrano,[5] but this taxon is not treated as valid by Fishbase.[3]
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