For eager-but-uninformed newbies to the world of aquarium keeping, however, angelfish can be heartbreakers. Arguably the most popular freshwater aquarium fish, angels tend to have a high mortality ...

A 17-year-old high school student in California has sequenced the genome of the freshwater angelfish (Pterophyllum scalare) for the first time. Indeever Madireddy sequenced the genome of his pet ...

"In this work, I sequenced, assembled, and annotated the complete genome of the freshwater angelfish in addition to the full mitochondrial genome with Oxford Nanopore Technologies," he wrote in ...

Angelfish, or pterophyllum, are freshwater fish from the family Cichlidae. All angelfish species originate from the Amazon River, Orinoco River and Essequibo River basins in tropical South America.