Centropyge fisheri varies in colour from deep blue to orange-brown.

Its range extends north to southern Japan and south to the Great Barrier Reef.

It is frequently found in areas of brittle corals and coralline algae which it shares with damselfish and smaller wrasses.

[4] This species is a protogynous hermaphrodite, the dominant female in a group will change sex if there is no male.

[6] The specific name honours the zoologist Walter Kenrick Fisher (1878-1953) of Stanford University.