Description

Also known as Coralfish, Diamond Butterflyfish, French Butterflyfish, Jewel Butterflyfish, Long-nosed Butterflyfish, Marcella Butterfly, West African Marcella Butterflyfish.

Found singly or in pairs, over deep rocky bottoms of coastal reefs.
They feed on benthic invertebrates.
Length - 11cm
Depth - 10-140m
Widespread Eastern Atlantic

Butterflyfishes have very fine hair like teeth that enable them to pick out small organisms inaccessible to most other fish for eating.
They thrive 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.se/summary/5102