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Orange banded coral fish
Scientific name : Coradion chrysozonus
Small butterfly fish (15 cm), white with 4 brown-orange vertical bands. Second and third bands are connected at the lower end, the third is larger. Black spot on dorsal fin. Living along the external reef, in areas with rubble and mud, with fewer hard coral. It feeds on sponges.
Coradion altivelis has no black spots and has second and third band of the same size. Coradion melanopus has two spots, one also on anal fin.
Associated organisms With large Porifera, its food.
Habitat:
Reef external slope, Sand
Distribution:
Western Pacific
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