A dwarf angelfish that is entirely yellow, with no markings at all.
To about 12 cm and entirely bright yellow; males carry a dark smudge behind the eye and along the upper rear of the dorsal fin, and some populations show it more strongly than others. The lemonpeel angelfish Centropyge flavissima, which occurs further east, has a blue ring around the eye and blue fin margins — the absence of any blue is the identification here.
It grazes algae over coral and rubble on slopes, in small groups of a male and several females, and is quick to drop into cover. Like the other dwarf angelfishes it does not hold still, and the practical method is to settle beside a coral head and let it come back round. Recorded from about 5 to 40 m.
Ratings are per location: 1 means found on most dives that look for it, 5 means a handful of records. Where enough dives have been logged the figure is calculated from them; otherwise it is an editorial estimate, and says so. We publish habitat and destination, not the dive site.