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Updated 3/26/2018

Family Chaetodontidae

TROPICAL PACIFIC

Chaetodon ulietensis

Breakers Point, Tutuila, American Samoa, 25 feet

 

Waikiki Aquarium

Waikiki Aquarium

 


Paradise Taveuni, Fiji, 20 feet


Savusavu Bay, Fiji, 5 feet



Juvenile, Yap, 5 feet		  

 PACIFIC DOUBLE-SADDLE BUTTERFLYFISH    Sudare-chochouo

Common in bays and lagoons to 100 feet.  Feeds upon benthic invertebrates and algae.  Attains 6 inches.  Sumatra to Japan, Eastern Australia, and Polynesia; stray individuals reported in Hawai'i.  Chaetodon falcula in the Indian Ocean has yellow between black saddles.