Forcipiger wanai

Forcipiger wanai, the Cenderawasih longnose butterflyfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish from the family Chaetodontidae. It is endemic to Cenderawasih Bay in the Bird's Head Peninsula region of West Papua.^[1][2]

Forcipiger wanai
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Acanthuriformes
Family:	Chaetodontidae
Genus:	Forcipiger
Species:	F. wanai
Binomial name
Forcipiger wanai G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Jones Sbrocco, 2012

Etymology

The name for this fish^{[clarification needed]} is used by the local inhabitants, who speak the Wandammen language group in the southwestern part of Cenderawasih Bay, West Papua Province, Indonesia, which is the type locality.^[3]