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Oval butterflyfish

Characteristics

  • Often recorded singly, but usually recorded in pairs during breeding season.
  • Mainly feeds on hard corals, and occasionally feeds on small invertebrates and tiny preys in coral rubble and sand.

Description

  • Body orange-yellow.
  • Oblique mauve stripes on body.
  • A black vertical bar crosses through eyes.
  • Tail base grey.

Common Name: Oval butterflyfish

Family Common Name: Butterflyfishes

Family: Chaetodontidae

Scientific Name: Chaetodon lunulatus___(Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)

Genus: Chaetodon

Maximum Length: 14 cm (Total Length)

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未評估
Not Evaluated (ne)
數據缺乏
Data Deficient (dd)
無危
Least Concern (lc)
近危
Near Threatened (nt)
易危
Vulnerable (vu)
瀕危
Endangered (en)
極危
Critically Endangered (cr)
絕滅
Extinct (ex)
Oval butterflyfish

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