Spotfin butterflyfish
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| Spotfin butterflyfish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Chaetodontidae |
| Genus: | Chaetodon |
| Species: | C. ocellatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Chaetodon ocellatus Bloch, 1787 |
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The spotfin butterflyfish, Chaetodon ocellatus, is a butterflyfish found in the western Atlantic Ocean, in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.
The name is derived from the dark spot on the fish's dorsal fin. This, combined with a vertical, black bar through the eye, is designed to confuse predators.
[edit] References
- "Chaetodon ocellatus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=169556. Retrieved 6 June 2006.
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2005). "Chaetodon ocellatus" in FishBase. November 2005 version.
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