Bellus Lyretail Angel Fish (Blue)

Genicanthus bellus Is sexually dichromatic, the males and females show different colouration and patterning. The females, and the juveniles, have greyish to bluish background colouration and are marked with wide black bands and a blue longitudinal stripe on the lower flanks. The males’ background colour is pale bluish to greyish and they have horizontal golden stripes along the centre of the flanks and another along the lower back.^[2] Also in the males the bases of the pectoral and dorsal fins are the same colour as the stripes on the body. The caudal fin are unpigmented frequently marked with patches of orange, these have filamentous extensions and are bright blue. The lips are also bright blue. In the females and juveniles there is a black stripe which runs vertically from the nape through and engulfing the eye but does not extend past the lower part of the orbit.