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.
| Forcipiger | |
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| Forcipiger flavissimus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Chaetodontidae |
| Genus: | Forcipiger D. S. Jordan & E. A. McGregor, 1898 |
| Type species | |
| Chaetodon longirostris Broussonet, 1782 | |
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
- Forcipiger flavissimus D. S. Jordan & E. A. McGregor, 1898 – yellow longnose butterflyfish
- Forcipiger longirostris (Broussonet, 1782) – longnose butterflyfish
- Forcipiger wanai G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Sbrocco, 2012
Some authorities recognise a fourth species, F. cyrano, but this taxon is not treated as valid by Fishbase.
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