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unusual facts about Angelfish


Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Plentimaw Fish: Large, shark-like Angelfish living near Gup, which is built on several islands.


Ceratoichthys

Its fins give it a superficial resemblance to a freshwater angelfish, leading some people to erroneously refer to C. pinnatiformis as an "angelfish," too.

Isabelita

Holacanthus isabelita, a species of marine angelfish, specifically the blue angelfish

Platax

Another species that has been mistakenly classified as a Platax is the common freshwater angelfish, Pterophyllum scalare.

In a joint effort with Valenciennes, Cuvier published a natural history work in 1831 where the freshwater angelfish was classified as Platax scalaris.

Sex allocation

Sequential hermaphrodites, or sex changers, function as one sex early in their life, and then switch to the other (e.g. some reef fish such as angelfish, and some invertebrates such as Pandalid shrimps).

The Way I Walk

"Superman" was previously recorded by Mackenzie side-project Angelfish as "Trash It", which appeared on their 1993 Suffocate Me EP.


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