Sunset or Dot-dash Butterflyfish, Chaetodon pelewensis

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Family Chaetodontidae

TROPICAL PACIFIC

Chaetodon pelewensis

Rainmaker Point, Tutuila, American Samoa, 45 feet

SUNSET or DOT-DASH BUTTERFLYFISH

Common as pair on coral reefs to 100 feet. Feeds upon coral polyps, invertebrates, and algae. Attains 5 inches. Great Barrier Reef east to the Tuamotus. Chaetodon punctatofasciatus has vertical rows of dark spots.