Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Chaetodontidae > Chaetodon > Chaetodon citrinellus

Chaetodon citrinellus (Midas cichlid; red devil; Citron butterfly; Citron butterflyfish; Citron coralfish; Lemon butterflyfish; Speckled butterflyfish)

Synonyms: Chaetodon citrinellus semipunctatus; Chaetodon nigripes; Exornator exornator citrinellus
Language: Bikol; Carolinian; Cebuano; Danish; Davawenyo; Divehi; Fijian; French; German; Hawaiian; Ilokano; Italian; Japanese; Kagayanen; Mahl; Malay; Malayalam; Mandarin Chinese; Marshallese; Samoan; Surigaonon; Tagalog; Tahitian; Tuamotuan; Visayan; Waray-waray

Wikipedia Abstract

Chaetodon citrinellus is a species of butterflyfish (familyChaetodontidae). It is commonly known as the Speckled Butterflyfish or Citron Butterflyfish. It is found in the Indo-Pacific: the Red Sea, East Africa to the Hawaiian, Marquesan and Tuamotu islands, north to southern Japan and south to Australia.
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Infraspecies

Chaetodon citrinellus citrinellus
Chaetodon citrinellus nigripes
Chaetodon citrinellus var. citrinellus
Chaetodon citrinellus var. semipunctatus

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    

Prey / Diet

Acropora gemmifera (Cluster acropora)[1]
Omphyma turbinata (Staghorn coral)[1]
Pocillopora damicornis (Brush coral)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

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
♦ 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.
♦ 4Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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