Chaetodontidae

teardrop butterflyfish

Chaetodon unimaculatus

Fish Reaching Twenty Centimeters in the Hawaiian Islands

• Tropical
• Transcontinental
• Marine fish
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Africa
• East Asia
• Oceania
• Deep-bodied
• Compressed cross-section
• Medium
• Tropical fish

teardrop butterflyfish is known around Indo-Pacific as a marine fish; It occurs in reef habitat, and records give a maximum length of 20 cm.