Sunburst butterflyfish
| Sunburst butterflyfish | |
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| Western color morph at Pemba Island (Tanzania) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Chaetodontidae |
| Genus: | Chaetodon |
| Subgenus: | Lepidochaetodon
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| Species: | C. kleinii
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| Binomial name | |
| Chaetodon kleinii Bloch, 1790
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The sunburst butterflyfish (Chaetodon kleinii), also known as the black-lipped butterflyfish, "blacklip butterflyfish" or Klein's butterflyfish, is a species of marine
Chaetodontidae. This is an Indo-Pacific
species of reef habitats.
Description
The body of this fish is yellowish brown with 1-2 broad lighter
vertical bars, one running from near the origin of the dorsal spine to the belly, and sometimes another running from the middle of the back to the center of the body. A black bar runs vertically across the eye, and the part before this is whitish, with a black snout. The color varies somewhat across the range; western specimens usually have one beige bar, while eastern ones have two white bars. There may be numerous dotted horizontal stripes on the sides, or another dark band between the two light ones in eastern specimens.[2]
Distribution
It is a native of the
Pacific.[2]
Habitat and biology
The sunburst butterflyfish is found at depths of 4–61 meters, usually in deeper
oviparous.[2]
They are
coral polyps (especially Litophyton viridis and Sarcophyton tracheliophorum), algae and zooplankton.[2] In the aquarium, Chaetodon kleinii will eat meaty food such as mysis. Its coral-eating habits can become a nuisance, but on the other hand they are fond of Aiptasia, small sea anemones that often become a pest in seawater aquaria.[3]
Taxonomy and etymology
The sunburst butterflyfish was first formally
type locality given as the East Indies (Ostindien).[4] The specific name honours the German jurist, historian, botanist, zoologist and mathematician Jacob Theodor Klein (1685-1759) who illustrated this species in volume 4 of his 5 volume history of fishes, which drew Bloch's attention.[5]
Under its
References
- . Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Chaetodon keleinii" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
- ^ "Chaetodon klenii". Saltcorner. Bob Goemans. 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Chaetodon kleinii". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (21 July 2020). "Order ACANTHURIFORMES (part 1): Families LOBOTIDAE, POMACANTHIDAE, DREPANEIDAE and CHAETODONTIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Chaetodontidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
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- ^ Hsu, Kui-Ching; Chen, Jeng-Ping & Shao, Kwang-Tsao (2007). "Molecular phylogeny of Chaetodon (Teleostei: Chaetodontidae) in the Indo-West Pacific: evolution in geminate species pairs and species groups" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement. 14: 77–86. Archived 2007-08-11 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Photos of Sunburst butterflyfish on Sealife Collection
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