Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Chaetodontidae > Chaetodon > Chaetodon unimaculatus

Chaetodon unimaculatus (onespot coralfish; Limespot butterflyfish; One-spot butterfly; Onespot butterflyfish; Pacific teardrop butterflyfish; Teardrop butterfly fish; Teardrop butterflyfish; Teardrop coralfish)

Synonyms: Chaetodon sphenospilus; Heterochaetodon lepidochaetodon unimaculatus
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Wikipedia Abstract

The Teardrop Butterflyfish, Chaetodon unimaculatus, is a species of butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae). In the Indian Ocean it is replaced by the Yellow Teardrop Butterflyfish (C. interruptus), now considered to be a separate species but previously included in C. unimaculatus as a subspecies. In its subgenus Lepidochaetodon – sometimes considered a separate genus – it is only distantly related to species such as the Sunburst Butterflyfish (C. kleinii) and the Tahiti Butterflyfish (C. trichrous).
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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    

Prey / Diet

Montipora verrucosa (Rice coral)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Auerbachia chaetodoni[2]
Kudoa chaetodoni[2]
Paradiscogaster eniwetokensis[3]
Paradiscogaster glebulae[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Impact of coral predators on tropical reefs, Randi D. Rotjan, Sara M. Lewis, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 367: 73–91, 2008
♦ 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