Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Chaetodontidae > Chaetodon > Chaetodon kleinii

Chaetodon kleinii (Blacklip butterflyfish; Bluehead butterflyfish; Brown butterflyfish; Butterflyfish; Klein’s butterfly fish; Klein's butterfly; Klein's butterflyfish; Klein's coralfish; Sunburst butterflyfish; Whitespotted butterflyfish; White-spotted butterflyfish; Yellowspot butterflyfish; Klein’s butterfly fish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Sunburst Butterflyfish, Chaetodon kleinii, is also known as the Black-lipped Butterflyfish (or "blacklip butterflyfish") or Klein's Butterflyfish. It is a native of the Indo-Pacific region, from the Red Sea and East Africa to the Hawaiian Islands and Samoa, north to southern Japan, south to Australia and New Caledonia. It is also found in Galapagos Islands in the Eastern Pacific.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Archipelago de Colon Biosphere Reserve 34336011 Galapagos Islands, Ecuador  
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    

Prey / Diet

Pocillopora damicornis (Brush coral)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

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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
♦ 3Gibson, 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