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Updated 4/7/2020

Family Chaetodontidae

INDO-PACIFIC

Chaetodon vagabundus



Palau


Night color, Vava'u, Tonga

Faga'alu, Tutuila, American Samoa, 5 feet

 



Sunabe, Okinawa, 20 feet


Juvenile, Savusavu Bay, Fiji, 8 feet

VAGABOND BUTTERFLYFISH    Furai-chochouo

Common as pair on reefs to 100 feet.  Omnivorous.  Attains 9 inches.   Red Sea to Japan and the Tuamotus, excluding Hawai'i.  Chaetodon auriga has orange on the back, replaced by Chaetodon decussatus in India.