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Longnose Butterflyfishes
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Longnose Butterflyfishes

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.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species

Forceps Butterflyfish

speciesForcipiger flavissimus

Longnose Butterflyfish

speciesForcipiger longirostris

Cenderawasih longnose butterflyfish

speciesForcipiger wanai

Randall's Longnose Butterflyfish

speciesForcipiger cyrano

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 88402.