Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Chaetodontidae > Chaetodon > Chaetodon capistratus

Chaetodon capistratus (School mistress; Kete; Four-eyed butteflyfish; Four-eye butterflyfish; Foureye butterflyfish; Four eye butterflyfish; Butterfly; Butterbun)

Synonyms: Chaetodon bricei
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Wikipedia Abstract

The foureye butterflyfish (Chaetodon capistratus) is a butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae). It is alternatively called the four-eyed butterflyfish. This species is found in the Western Atlantic from Massachusetts, USA and Bermuda to the West Indies and northern South America. Chaetodon capistratus is the type species of Chaetodon. If this genus is split up as some have proposed, it will retain its present name like its closest relatives, which include the banded butterflyfish (C. striatus) and the spot-finned butterflyfish (C. ocellatus).
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Attributes

Water Biome [1]  Reef

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Abudefduf saxatilis (Sergeant-major)1
Abudefduf taurus (Pilotfish)1
Pomacanthus arcuatus (Pot cover)1
Pomacanthus paru (French angelfish)1

Predators

Carcharhinus perezii (Caribbean reef shark)[2]
Cephalopholis cruentata (Grouper)[2]
Rhizoprionodon porosus (Snook shark)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Haliotrema brevicirrus[2]
Hurleytrematoides chaetodoni[2]
Neobenedenia melleni[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Impact of coral predators on tropical reefs, Randi D. Rotjan, Sara M. Lewis, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 367: 73–91, 2008
♦ 4Food Habits of Reef Fishes of the West Indies, John E. Randall, Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. 5, 665–847 (1967)
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0