Real photoREAL PHOTO
Chaetodontidae
banded butterflyfish
Chaetodon striatus
Vertical stripes disrupt predator perception
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Deep-bodied
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Deep-bodied
Mediumbanded butterflyfish is known from Western Atlantic as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Genus
- Chaetodon
- Maximum length
- 16 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Massachusetts, USA to Santa Catarina, Brazil (Ref. 57756 ), including the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Eastern Central Atlantic: St. Paul's Rocks (Ref. 13121 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
