angelfish

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We then continued on our way around the pinacle of shark point and saw many other fish including moray eels, butterfly fish, emperor angelfish, and also some really cool crustaceans!

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  1. noun A brightly colored fish of the family Pomacanthidae of warm seas, having a laterally compressed body.
  2. noun A freshwater fish (Pterophyllum scalare), native to rivers of tropical South America and having a laterally compressed, usually striped body. It is popular in aquariums. Also called scalare.

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  • Here's another new angelfish we discovered. —  Richard Pyle dives the reef's Twilight Zone
  • Whether freshwater or saltwater, you can select from over 40 popular types of fish, including favorites like the Ocellaris clownfish, the freshwater angelfish and the Asian arowana. —  Gaming Bits
  • Snorkellers and divers are almost guaranteed to see stingrays, schooling jack and the more common reef tropicals such as groupers, angelfish, parrot fish and barracuda.
  • We then continued on our way around the pinacle of shark point and saw many other fish including moray eels, butterfly fish, emperor angelfish, and also some really cool crustaceans! —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Thy swimming's fun, thy gills breathe on, in perch, angelfish and eel fin. —  The Raving Theist
 

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