''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.

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus: * ''

Forcipiger flavissimus The yellow longnose butterflyfish or forceps butterflyfish (''Forcipiger flavissimus'') is a species of marine fish in the family Chaetodontidae. The yellow longnose butterflyfish is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific ...

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, 1898 – yellow longnose butterflyfish * ''

Forcipiger longirostris ''Forcipiger longirostris'', commonly known as the longnose butterflyfish or big longnose butterflyfish, is a species of butterflyfish found on coral reefs throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific. Even with its distinctive, point-lik ...

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Forcipiger wanai ''Forcipiger wanai'', the Cenderawasih longnose butterflyfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish from the family Chaetodontidae. It is endemic to Cenderawasih Bay in the Bird's Head Peninsula The Bird's Head Peninsula ( ...

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Gallery

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References

Chaetodontidae Marine fish genera Taxa named by David Starr Jordan {{Chaetodontidae-stub