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Blacktail butterflyfish
Chaetodon austracius
Distribution: Indian Ocean, Red Sea. Description: Fish Butterfly platform , its size varies from 15 to 20 cm. The mouth is slightly elongated . Her dress is yellow. A black band , surrounded by yellow crosses the head at the eye characteristic of its kind. The body is decorated at the top , a black spot elongated in the extension of one of the stripes. Dark blue stripes on a light blue background, horizontal , cover the body of the cover to the caudal fin. The caudal fin is transparent to the end followed by a vertical line noire.la base of the fin is yellow. The dorsal fin is blue sky, the anal fin is yellow, a black line is the separation from the body. Housing: generally lives in pairs in lagoons , but also offshore in areas rich in coral, to a depth of 60 m. 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: | austracius | Descriptor: | Rüppel, 1836 |  |