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Black backed butterflyfish
Chaetodon melannotus
Distribution: Australia, East Africa, Red Sea, New Guinea to Fiji. Habitat: generally live in pairs in areas rich in coral, to a depth of 15m. Description: Size: up to 15 cm. He wears so frequent eye stripe in his group, his fins are a yellow halo around the body and silver striped oblique thin black lines. On the back to form a dark spot continues to the base of the ridge depending on his mood varies in size; night this area has two white spots. It is rarely seen alone, it is often mixed with other groups butterflyfish. Food: It feeds mainly on soft corals. |
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Taxonomic classification
| Phylum: | Chordata | Class: | Actinopterygii | Sub class: | Neopterygii | To print in "PDF" format |
| Order: | Perciformes | Sub order: | Percoidei | Family: | Chaetodontidae | |
| Genus: | Chaetodon | Species: | melannotus | Descriptor: | Bloch & Schneider, 1801 |  |