blue-cheeked butterflyfish
About "blue-cheeked butterflyfish"
📍Kingdom:- Animalia
📍Phylum:- Chordata
📍Class:- Actinopterygii
📍Order:- Perciformes
📍Family:- Chaetodontidae
📍Genus:- Chaetodon
📍Subgenus:- Rabdophorus
📍Species:- C. semilarvatus
📍Binomial name:-
Chaetodon semilarvatus
👉The blue-cheeked butterflyfish, Chaetodon semilarvatus, is a species of butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae).
👉It is found in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, at depths of between 3 and 20 m.
👉Its length is up to 13 cm (5.1 in).
👉It is mostly yellow, with thin slate blue vertical lines on the sides and a slate blue cheek patch in lieu of the usual black eyestripe of most Chaetodon.
👉This species is one of the few fish species to have long-term mates.
In the wild, the fish eats hard corals as well as benthic invertebrates.
📷 : https://www.monaconatureencyclopedia.com/chaetodon-semilarvatus/?lang=en
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