Saddle Butterflyfish

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 About "Saddle Butterflyfish"

📍Kingdom:- Animalia

📍Phylum:- Chordata

📍Class:- Actinopterygii

📍Order:- Perciformes

📍Family:- Chaetodontidae

📍Genus:- Chaetodon

📍Subgenus:- Rabdophorus

📍Species:- C. ephippium

📍Binomial name:-

Chaetodon ephippium

👉The Saddle Butterflyfish, Chaetodon ephippium, is a species of butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae).

👉It is found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans from Sri Lanka and the Cocos-Keeling Islands to the Hawaiian, Marquesan and Tuamoto islands, north to southern Japan, south to Rowley Shoals and New South Wales in Australia.

👉It is a large butterflyfish, at up to 30 cm (nearly 12 in) long together with the Lined Butterflyfish (C. lineolatus) the giant among its genus.

👉In shape it resembles certain angelfishes more than most of its relatives.

👉The overall color is yellowish grey, with a large black spot bordered below by a broad white band on the back and wavy blue lines on the lower sides.

👉 The throat and the outline of the hind parts is bright yellow.

👉Adults have a filament extending posteriorly from the upper part of the soft portion of the dorsal fin.

👉The Saddle Butterflyfish is found at depths between 0 and 30 m in coral reefs.

👉It feeds on filamentous algae, small invertebrates, coral polyps, and fish eggs.

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