Forcipiger

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]

Forcipiger
Forcipiger flavissimus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Acanthuriformes
Family:	Chaetodontidae
Genus:	Forcipiger D. S. Jordan & E. A. McGregor, 1898
Type species
Chaetodon longirostris Broussonet, 1782[1]

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus:^[3][4]

Species	Common name	Image
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]	Cenderawasih longnose butterflyfish

Some authorities recognise a fourth species, F. cyrano,^[5] but this taxon is not treated as valid by Fishbase.^[3]