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Bloch, 1790
Chaetodon kleinii also known as Klein's Butterflyfish, Sunburst Butterflyfish, Blacklip Butterflyfish and White- or Yellowspotted Butterflyfish is primarily golden yellow.
Sometimes it have either a black or a black and blue eye band from forehead through eye to chest, blue above eye, black below; a broad tan bar behind pectoral.
Klein's Butterflyfish occurs widespread in the tropical Indo-Pacific. Very common in lagoon, back reef, reef front, external reef. It lives in pairs or in shoals, feeding on corals, algae, worms, crustaceans, plankton, fish eggs.
Remarks:
Butterflyfish are not recommended for reefs as they will pick at or eat a wide variety of corals, fan worms, and other invertebrates. Most Butterflyfish are known to pick at Aiptaisia, a parasitic anemone.
Synonyms:
Anisochaetodon kleinii (Bloch, 1790)
Chaetodon bellulus Thiollière, 1857
Chaetodon cingulatus Fowler, 1934
Chaetodon corallicola Snyder, 1904
Chaetodon flavescens Bennett, 1831
Chaetodon kleini Bloch, 1790
Chaetodon melammystax Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Chaetodon melastomus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Chaetodon virescens Cuvier, 1831
Choetodon kleinii Bloch, 1790
Tetragonoptrus kleini (Bloch, 1790)
Chaetodon kleinii also known as Klein's Butterflyfish, Sunburst Butterflyfish, Blacklip Butterflyfish and White- or Yellowspotted Butterflyfish is primarily golden yellow.
Sometimes it have either a black or a black and blue eye band from forehead through eye to chest, blue above eye, black below; a broad tan bar behind pectoral.
Klein's Butterflyfish occurs widespread in the tropical Indo-Pacific. Very common in lagoon, back reef, reef front, external reef. It lives in pairs or in shoals, feeding on corals, algae, worms, crustaceans, plankton, fish eggs.
Remarks:
Butterflyfish are not recommended for reefs as they will pick at or eat a wide variety of corals, fan worms, and other invertebrates. Most Butterflyfish are known to pick at Aiptaisia, a parasitic anemone.
Synonyms:
Anisochaetodon kleinii (Bloch, 1790)
Chaetodon bellulus Thiollière, 1857
Chaetodon cingulatus Fowler, 1934
Chaetodon corallicola Snyder, 1904
Chaetodon flavescens Bennett, 1831
Chaetodon kleini Bloch, 1790
Chaetodon melammystax Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Chaetodon melastomus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Chaetodon virescens Cuvier, 1831
Choetodon kleinii Bloch, 1790
Tetragonoptrus kleini (Bloch, 1790)
