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Animal realm > Chordates > Vertebrates > Bony fishes > Perciforms > Butterflyfishes > Yellow dotted butterfly fish

Yellow dotted butterfly fish

Scientific name : Chaetodon selene


Medium size butterfly fish (16 cm), uncommon, white with black eye band and posterior band, yellow fins, diagonal dotted lines.
Living normally on the external reef, usually along sandy or rubble slopes, deeper than 20 m.
Possible confusion with Chaetodon guentheri, that misses the back black band and has black-white edge of fins.


Habitat: Reef external slope

Distribution: Western Pacific

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