Saltwaterfish. Butterflyfishes. Deep-bodied and  laterally compressed, with a single dorsal fin and a small mouth. Inhabit corals reefs in shallow water where they swim about, usually in mated pairs in search for food.

- Banded Butterflyfish Chaetodon striatus
- Spotfin Butterflyfish Chaetodon ocellatus

Size:  8 to 13 cm, max 15 cm
Colour: white body with yellow caudal fin, a dark bar across the head through the eye and one at the dorsal fin.
Shape:  Deep-bodied and  laterally compressed and a small mouth.

Inhabit corals reefs in shallow water where they swim about, usually in mated pairs in search for food.

BES-eilanden: St. Eustatius.

[Marion Haarsma, feb. 2016]

- DeLoach, N., & Humann, P. (2002). Reef Fish Identification - Florida Caribbean Bahamas - 3th Edition. New World Publications, Inc.

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