Description
Also known as Coralfish, Diagonal Butterflyfish, Diagonal-lined Butterflyfish, Raccoon Butterflyfish, Raccoon Fasciatus Butterflyfish, Red Sea Butterflyfish, Striped Butterflyfish.
Found singly or in pairs, over reef flats rich in coral growth.
They feed on coral polyps.
Length - 22cm
Depth - 1-25m
Western Indian Ocean - Gulf of Aden to Red Sea
Butterflyfishes have very fine hair like teeth that enable them to pick out small organisms inaccessible to most other fish for eating.
They thrive mainly on a diet of coral polyps, tentacles of featherdusters and Christmas-tree worms. As these food sources all zap back into their shells, butterflyfishes need to be able to hover motionless while picking at the coral and to dart swiftly over short distances to get the worm before it retracts. They do this by using their Pectoral fins as oars to brake, sprint, turn and even reverse. Ref: https://www.fishbase.in/summary/Chaetodon-fasciatus.html
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