Butterflyfish are named for their brightly-colored and patterned bodies, which can be shades of red, blue, white, black, orange, and yellow.
Many species exhibit dark eyespots on their sides and dark bands across their eyes.
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Butterflyfish Range
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Banded Butterflyfish Chaetodon striatus
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Pyramid butterflyfish
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Angelfish and Butterflyfish are a favorite among marine aquarists. Their beauty and size make them the perfect fish for show tanks.
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Oblique butterflyfish (Prognathodes obliquus)
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Butterflyfishes are brightly-colored, often yellow or white, with darker contrasting markings that may conceal the eye. They, like some other reef fishes, are sometimes described as 'poster-colored' due to their vivid coloration.
Vagabond Butterflyfish, Chaetodon vagabundus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Longnose butterflyfish
Class: Actinopterygii
Status: IUCN: Least Concern; CITES: Not Listed.
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Copperbanded Butterflyfish
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Body Shape
Butterflyfish and triggerfish have slender bodies. If threatened, they wedge themselves between coral branches or into narrow crevices and erect fin spines so they are almost impossible to dislodge.
Butterfly Fish, Herring, Indigo Hamlet (Hypoplectrus indigo), Japanese Tang (Naso literatus), Jawfish (Opistognathus auritrons), Koran Angelfish (Pomacanthodes semiciculatus), Lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus), Lionfish, Long Nosed Butterflyfish, ...
Chaetodon capistratus (foureye butterflyfish)
Chaetodon striatus (Banded butterflyfish)
Channa asiatica (-)
Coryphaena equiselis (Pompano dolphinfish)
Coryphaena hippurus (Mahi-Mahi)
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The walls also had a number of moray eels, small triplefins, sponges, tunicates, anemones, and the wonderful Lord Howe Coralfish, a tropical species in the butterflyfish family that reaches the edge of its range in the Poor Knights.
Long-nosed Butterflyfish ( Forcipiger flavissimus )
Devil Ray / Manta Ray ( Manta birostris )
Megamouth ( Megachasma pelagios )
Pajama Cardinalfish ( Sphaeramia nematoptera )
Percula Clownfish ( Amphiprion Percula ) ...
grunts, bonnetmouths, porgys, seabreams, emperors, threadfin breams, spinycheeks, croakers, drums, threadfins, goatfishes, sweepers, beachsalmon, bathyclupeids, archerfishes, galjoens, sea chubs, jutjaws, sicklefishes, moonies, butterflyfishes, ...
 See also: Coral, Shark, Parrot, Genet, Perch
  
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