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 fishes name for this fish 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]