butterflyfishes
chaetodontidae latin

In Mozambique, sergeant major fish clean the mouth while butterflyfishes concentrate on bite wounds.

It is not closely related to saltwater butterflyfishes.

They most closely resemble the butterflyfishes, a related family of similarly showy reef fish.

The conspicuous coloration of butterflyfishes may be intended for interspecies communication.

These features are characteristic of typical butterflyfishes.

Parachaetodon is a genus of butterflyfishes native to the Indo-Pacific region.

C. madagaskariensis is one of the "crowned" butterflyfishes.

These include such fish as the butterflyfishes, the angelfishes and the damselfish, Stegastes acapulcoensis.

The "typical" butterflyfishes may eventually come to contain more genera; see Chaetodon:

They may be compatible with other butterflyfishes that have a different color pattern, but there is no guarantee that their relationship will always be peaceful.

The clownfish can also defend the anemone against some reef fishes which could eat the tentacles such as butterflyfishes.

Prognathodes is a genus of butterflyfishes.

A number of butterflyfishes (genus Heniochus) closely resemble the Moorish idol.

Thus, the Red-tailed and Mailed butterflyfishes probably represent a case of convergent evolution and perhaps mimicry.

Chaetodontidae (butterflyfishes)

For example, the primary food source of butterflyfishes are the coral polyps themselves or the appendages of polychaetes and other small invertebrate animals.

Butterflyfishes look like smaller versions of angelfish (Pomacanthidae), but unlike these, lack preopercle spines at the gill covers.

The clownfishs help to attract prey items close to the anemone's tentacles, and helps to defend it from tentacle-eating predators, such as butterflyfishes.

Chaetodon (Butterflyfishes, Angelfishes, & kin)

Butterflyfishes are pelagic spawners; that is, they release many buoyant eggs into the water, which become part of the plankton, floating with the currents until hatching.

The triangle butterflyfishes and the Hooded Butterflyfish (C. larvatus) form the subgenus Gonochaetodon.

Black-tailed butterflyfishes tend to be found in coral-rich areas between 0.5 and 20 m deep, on seaward reefs or in lagoons or bays.

The butterflyfishes are a group of conspicuous tropical marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae; the bannerfish and coralfish are also included in this group.

In any case, one lineage of Chaetodontidae (in the modern sense) contains the "typical" butterflyfishes around Chaetodon, while the other unites the bannerfish and coralfish genera.

Like the other butterflyfishes with angular yellow bodíes with black eyestripes and (except in the present species) a single differently-colored patch, it belongs in the subgenus Tetrachaetodon.

Chelmonops is a genus of tropical fish in the family Chaetodontidae.

Thus, the Chaetodontidae emerged probably in the early to mid-Eocene.

Hence, Chaetodontinae is today considered a junior synonym of Chaetodontidae.

This genus is by far the largest among the Chaetodontidae, with about 90 living species included here, though most might warrant recognition as distinct genera.

The Chaetodontidae can be, but are not usually, divided into two lineages that arguably are subfamilies.

Heniochus chrysostomus, common name Threeband pennantfish, is a tropical fish of the family Chaetodontidae.

The Yellowhead butterflyfish, Chaetodon xanthocephalus, is a member of the Chaetodontidae.

The Three-banded butterflyfish, Chaetodon robustus, is a species of fish in the Chaetodontidae family.

But since it is not easy to distinguish this genus from close relatives, it may be that the Oligocene fossils are actually of other Chaetodontidae.

Chelmon marginalis, commonly known as Margined Coralfish, is a species of tropical fish in the family Chaetodontidae.

As the Perciformes are highly paraphyletic, the precise relationships of the Chaetodontidae as a whole are badly resolved.

The butterflyfishes are a group of conspicuous tropical marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae; the bannerfish and coralfish are also included in this group.

The pennant coralfish (Heniochus acuminatus), also known as the longfin bannerfish or coachman is a tropical fish of the family Chaetodontidae.

The subfamily name Chaetodontinae is a little-used leftover from the period when the Pomacanthidae and Chaetodontidae were united under the latter name as a single family.

In any case, one lineage of Chaetodontidae (in the modern sense) contains the "typical" butterflyfishes around Chaetodon, while the other unites the bannerfish and coralfish genera.

Another species to be assigned to the genus by Cuvier was Platax ocellatus, a butterflyfish that is now more correctly classified in the genus Chaetodon in Chaetodontidae.

Fessler, Jennifer L. & Westneat, Mark W. (2007): Molecular phylogenetics of the butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae): Taxonomy and biogeography of a global coral reef fish family.

The reef butterflyfish, Chaetodon sedentarius, is a butterflyfish of the family Chaetodontidae found in the western Atlantic Ocean from Brasil to North Carolina including Bermuda and the Gulf of Mexico.

The species was reclassified by Lacépède into its own genus (named from "weapon" in Greek to again reflect the long spines), and was moved by Cuvier from Chaetodontidae into its own separate family within Percoidei.

The Yellow teardrop butterflyfish, Chaetodon interruptus, is a butterflyfish of the family Chaetodontidae found in the Indian ocean from East Africa (south to Port Alfred, South Africa), to Sumatra, Indonesia.

Johnrandallia nigrirostris, the blacknosed butterflyfish or barberfish (from th Spanish names, El Barbero or Mariposa Barbero, "the barber" or "butterfly barber"), is a species of fish in the family Chaetodontidae, the butterfly fishes.