Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Chaetodontidae > Chaetodon > Chaetodon lunula

Chaetodon lunula (Red-striped butterfly-fish; Redstriped butterflyfish; Racoon coralfish; Racoon butterflyfish; Racoon; Raccoon butterflyfish; Raccoon butterfly; Moon butterflyfish; Moon butterfly fish; Halfmoon butterflyfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The raccoon butterflyfish (Chaetodon lunula), also known as the crescent-masked butterflyfish, lunule butterflyfish, halfmoon butterflyfish, moon butterflyfish, raccoon butterfly, raccoon, raccoon coralfish, and redstriped butterflyfish, is a species of butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae).
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    
Ranong   Thailand      

Prey / Diet

Acropora nasuta (Staghorn coral)[1]

Consumers

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1DIETARY SELECTION BY CORAL-FEEDING BUTTERFLYFISHES (CHAETODONTIDAE) ON THE GREAT BARRIER REEF, AUSTRALIA, Morgan S. Pratchett, THE RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY 2007 Supplement No. 14: 171-176
♦ 2Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
♦ 4Gibson, 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