Lemon Butterflyfish
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Lemon Butterflyfish ( Chaetodon miliaris ) |
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| Quoy & Gaimard , 1825 |
The lemon butterflyfish ( Chaetodon miliaris ), also called millet-grain butterflyfish , is a species of the butterflyfish family .
The lemon butterflyfish reaches a length of up to 13 cm. It lives solitary, in pairs or in large schools in the Pacific near Hawaii , where it is the most common butterfly fish. He has been observed from a diving boat at a depth of 250 meters.
Lemon butterflyfish feed on plankton and are also spawning predators. In large schools they plunder the clutches of damselfish , which cannot defend themselves against the mass of attackers.
literature
- Gerald R. Allen: Butterfly and Angelfish , Volume 2, 1979, Mergus Verlag, ISBN 3-88244-002-3
- Hans A. Baensch / Robert A. Patzner: Mergus Sea Water Atlas Volume 6 , Mergus-Verlag, Melle, ISBN 3-88244-116-X
Web links
Commons : Lemon Butterflyfish ( Chaetodon miliaris ) - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- The lemon butterflyfish in the marine lexicon (German)
- Lemon Butterflyfish on Fishbase.org (English)
- Chaetodon miliaris inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Listed by: Pyle, R. & Craig, MT, 2010. Retrieved September 2, 2013.