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title: "Rock Beauty"
description: "Holacanthus tricolor — Pesci. The rock beauty (Holacanthus tricolor), also known as corn sugar, coshubba, rock beasty, catalineta or yellow nanny, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the angelfish family Pomacanthidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/rock-beauty
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Rock Beauty

> Holacanthus tricolor — Pesci. The rock beauty (Holacanthus tricolor), also known as corn sugar, coshubba, rock beasty, catalineta or yellow nanny, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the angelfish family Pomacanthidae.

- Scientific name: *Holacanthus tricolor*
- Category: `fish` (Pesci)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mare e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 1423
- Wikidata: [Q729897](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q729897)
- iNaturalist taxon: [49495](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/49495)

## Names

- en: Rock Beauty
- de: Dreifarben-Kaiserfisch
- es: Chabelita tricolor
- fr: Poisson-ange des Caraïbes
- nl: Hertogsvis

## Countries with the most observations

MX (207), HN (104), US (88), BS (60), BZ (59), KY (51), MQ (38), CW (37), CU (34), GP (27), BL (21), VG (20)

## Summary

The rock beauty (Holacanthus tricolor), also known as corn sugar, coshubba, rock beasty, catalineta or yellow nanny, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the angelfish family Pomacanthidae. It is found in the western Atlantic Ocean.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_beauty

## Photo

![Rock Beauty](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/rock-beauty/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/261463026

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/rock-beauty?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).