The spotted angelfish, Genicanthus takeuchi, is a species of reef fish so obscure that it doesn’t get hardly any airtime outside of Reef Builders where we specialize in the rare and the unusual. This video taken on a cool deeper reef of Ogasawara Japan may only be ten seconds long but the majority of that time is focused on a providing a beautiful profile view of a large stunning male spotted angelfish in all its glory. Besides the ubiquitous emperor angelfish, the rarely seen spotted angelfish has one of the most unique appearances as a juvenile, as a hybrid and as a fully mature adult male.
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