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Banded Butterflyfish
Pauline Walsh Jacobson, CC BY 4.0, via iNaturalist

Other fish (coast and sea)

Banded Butterflyfish

Chaetodon striatus Linnaeus, 1758

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishBanded Butterflyfish
Dutch—
SpanishMariposa rayada
Chinese条带蝴蝶鱼
Scientific nameChaetodon striatus Linnaeus, 1758

About this species

The banded butterflyfish (Chaetodon striatus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish found in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean from Brazil to Bermuda. Common names include the banded butterflyfish, the butterbun, the butterflyfish, the Portuguese butterfly, the school mistress and the banded mariposa.

The name is derived from the dark vertical bands on the fish's body. This, combined with a vertical, black bar through the eye, is an antipredator adaptation, the bands disrupting the body's outlines.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
OrderPerciformes
FamilyChaetodontidae
GenusChaetodon

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