Racoon Butterflyfish,
Chaetodon lunula
(Lacépède 1802)
Other Names: Halfmoon Butterflyfish, Moon Butterfly Fish, Moon Butterflyfish, Racoon Coralfish, Racoon Coralfish, Red-striped Butterfly-fish
A Racoon Butterflyfish, Chaetodon lunula, at Nick's Lumps, Exmouth, Western Australia, April 2009. Source: Erik Schlogl / iNaturalist.org. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial
Summary:
A yellowish-orange butterflyfish with a dusky-brown back, diagonal dark stripes on the lower sides, a broad black bar through the eye followed by a white bar immediately behind, a broad diagonal blackbar from the gill cover to the dorsal fin, and a black spot on the caudal peduncle.
Cite this page as: A.Sahara Thomspon, Chaetodon lunula in Fishes of Australia, accessed 10 Nov 2020, http://136.154.202.208/home/species/421
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