English Name: White-tail angelfish
Family: POMACANTHIDAE
Local Name: Nigoo hudhu kokaamas
Order: Perciformes
Size: Max. 7 cm
Specimen: MRS/0336/89
Distinctive Characters: Dorsal fin with 14 spines and 15 rays. Anal fin with 3 spines and 1 7 rays.Scales on longitudinal series from upper edge of gill opening to caudal fin base 40-45.
Colour: Body dark. Head orangish. Caudal fin white or yellow.
Habitat and Biology: Usually seen on rubble bottoms in 20-50 in.
Distribution: Indo-Pacific.
Remarks: Centropyge flavicauda is one of the smallest of the angelfishes. It is not seen very often in Maldives. It is closely related to and perhaps not distinct from C. fisheri (Synder, 1904) from Hawaii.