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Updated 6/30/2024

Family Chaetodontidae

EAST INDO-WEST PACIFIC / HAWAII

Chaetodon ornatissimus

Kewalo Pipe, Oahu, 50 feet

 

Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 25 feet

Puako, Hawaii, 35 feet

 

Honaunau, Hawaii, 50 feet

Honokohau, Hawaii, 40 feet

 

Kewalo Pipe, Oahu, 50 feet

Juvenile, Mokuleia, Oahu, 100 feet

 

Juvenile at dusk, Haleiwa Trench, Oahu, 25 feet

Feeding, Kewalo Pipe, Oahu, 50 feet

 

Kaiser's wreck, Oahu, 15 feet


Honokohau, Hawaii, 40 feet

Makapu'u Pinnacle, O'ahu, 25 feet


Kuki'o, Hawaii, 12 feet

Ko'olina, Oahu, 25 feet
   

ORNATE BUTTERFLYFISH    kīkākapu    Hanaguro-chochouo

Pairs are common on coral reefs to 100 feet.  Grazes upon coral tissue.  Attains 8 inches.  Sri Lanka to Japan, Hawai'i, the Marquesas, and Rapa.  Chaetodon meyeri of the Indo-Pacific has black diagonal stripes.