Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Chaetodontidae > Chaetodon > Chaetodon baronessa

Chaetodon baronessa (Baroness butterflyfish; Eastern triangle butterflyfish; Eastern triangular butterflyfish; Herringbone coralfish; Pacific triangular butterflyfish; Triangular butterflyfish; Triangular coralfish)

Synonyms: Chaetodon barronessa; Citharoedus gonochaetodon baronessa
Language: Bikol; Cebuano; Danish; Davawenyo; Fijian; Ilokano; Japanese; Kagayanen; Malay; Mandarin Chinese; Tagalog; Visayan; Waray-waray

Wikipedia Abstract

The eastern triangle butterflyfish, Chaetodon baronessa, is a species of butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae). It is found in the central Indo-West Pacific region from the Cocos-Keeling Islands and Indonesia in the eastern Indian Ocean to Fiji and Tonga, north to southern Japan, south to New Caledonia and New South Wales in Australia.
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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

Prey / Diet

Omphyma turbinata (Staghorn coral)[1]
Pocillopora damicornis (Brush coral)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Paradiscogaster eniwetokensis[2]

External References

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
♦ 2Gibson, 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