Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Chaetodontidae > Chaetodon > Chaetodon auriga

Chaetodon auriga (Cross-stripe butterfly; Diagonal butterflyfish; Threadfin; Threadfin butterfly; Threadfin butterflyfish; Threadfin coralfish; Whip butterflyfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The threadfin butterflyfish, Chaetodon auriga, is a species of butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae).
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Infraspecies

Chaetodon setifer var. setifer

Attributes

Water Biome [1]  Reef, Coastal
Diet [1]  Omnivore

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Archipelago de Colon Biosphere Reserve 34336011 Galapagos Islands, Ecuador  
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Acropora millepora (Staghorn coral)[2]
Phestilla lugubris[3]

Consumers

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
♦ 2Clownfish and their Host Anemones ;; NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program
♦ 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
♦ 5Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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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