Emperor Angel – Pomacanthus imperator – Small Juvenile

The adult Emperor Angel (Pomacanthus imperator) has a yellow body crossed with diagonal blue lines. The tail is yellow and a small area around the mouth is white. A dark blue colored area extends along the bottom of the fish and up to the back of the gill cover. A dark blue and black bar covers the eye. Juvenile Emperor Angelfish are dark blue with concentric white lines that are curved and form a circle towards the rear of the fish. Juveniles are very similar to the Koran Angel (P. semicirculatus) but the white bars in the juvenile Koran Angel do not form a complete circle. Numerous other juvenile angelfish also have a black, blue and white striped pattern. Although the Emperor Angelfish can reach 15\