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Chaetodontidae
longnose butterflyfish
Forcipiger longirostris
Twenty Two Centimeters Chaetodontid Fish from the Hawaiian Islands
longnose butterflyfish is a marine fish found around Indo-Pacific. It inhabits marine waters. The largest recorded length is 22 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Genus
- Forcipiger
- Maximum length
- 22 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: East Africa to the Hawaiian, Marquesan, and Pitcairn islands, north to the Bonin [=Ogasawara] Islands, south to New Caledonia and the Austral Islands; throughout Micronesia.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

