Spotted butterflyfish
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Spotted butterflyfish ( Chaetodon quadrimaculatus ) |
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| Gray , 1831 |
The four-spot butterflyfish ( Chaetodon quadrimaculatus ), also four-spot butterflyfish , lives in pairs in the Pacific from southern Japan to Hawaii and Tahiti . It only stays in shallow water less than 10 meters deep. It is not common anywhere.
The four-spotted butterflyfish is a maximum of 16 centimeters long. It mainly eats coral polyps , but can get used to substitute food in the aquarium.
Web links
Commons : Four-spotted butterflyfish ( Chaetodon quadrimaculatus ) - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Four-spotted butterflyfish on Fishbase.org (English)
- Chaetodon quadrimaculatus inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Myers, R. & Pratchett, M., 2009. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
literature
- Gerald R. Allen: Butterfly and Angelfish, Volume 2 , 1979, Mergus Verlag, ISBN 3-88244-002-3
- Helmut Debelius , Rudie H. Kuiter : Falterfische, Chaetodontidae , 2003, Ulmer Verlag, ISBN 3-80014-243-0