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Updated 4/7/2020

Family Chaetodontidae

WEST PACIFIC

Chaetodon baronessa

Wakatobi, Indonesia, 25 feet

 

Moaboal, Philippines, 87 feet


Juvenile, Savusavu Bay, Fiji, 8 feet



Rainbow Reef, Fiji, 10 feet

Kuata, Fiji

EASTERN TRIANGULAR BUTTERFLYFISH    Mikado-chochouo

Uncommon as pair on coral reefs from 15 to 60 feet.  Feeds upon Acropora coral polyps.  Attains 6 inches.  Indonesia east to Tonga and Japan.  Replaced by Chaetodon triangulum in the Indian Ocean.