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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