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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
Tropical
Marine fish
Africa
Deep-bodied
Mediumteardrop butterflyfish is known around Indo-Pacific as a marine fish; It occurs in reef habitat, and records give a maximum length of 20 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Genus
- Chaetodon
- Maximum length
- 20 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: East Africa (south to Port Alfred, South Africa, Ref. 5372 ) to the Hawaiian, Marquesan, and Ducie islands, north to southern Japan, south to the Lord Howe and Rapa islands; throughout Micronesia.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
