Garçon! A French Angelfish, Sil Vous Plaît!

Meet the French angelfish (Pomacanthus paru), last seen in my article on bearded fireworms (Hermodice carunculata)! These range from around the St. Paul Rocks, Ascension Island, the Gulf of Mexico, the Carribean, Brazil, the Antilles, Roatan, and Florida. Go Atlantic fish!

These live in highly populated reefs and are often seen alone or (aww) in pairs! The length is pretty big—about 17 inches—and it feeds on bryozoans, sponges, zoanthids, gorgonians, tunicates, and algae. The juveniles, on the other hand, set up cleaning stations for morays, grunts, groupers, snappers, jacks, surgeonfish, and wrasses.

Here’s what the babies look like:

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