Rock beauty

The rock beauty is a graceful, yellow and black angelfish.  It is a little smaller than the more abundant queen angelfish and French angelfish, at 8 to 10 inches. They are a little shy, especially around my camera.

Juvenile rock beauties (see below) are pretty secretive, and hide in recesses of reef structures.  Towards the back of their yellow bodies, a black spot, ringed in brilliant blue, resembles an eye.  This false eye spot may confuse predators. This juvenile was a little over an inch long.