Eight-Banded Butterflyfish

Scientific Name: Chaetodon octofasciatus
Family: Butterflyfish - Chaetodontidae
Maximum Size: 12cm
Description: Yellow Variation - Yellow to orange with 8 narrow black bars.
Favourite: Shelters among branching corals; feed exclusively on coral polyps.
Hide-out: Shallow protected lagoons (often turbid/silty) and inner reefs with good coral cover in 3-20m.
Location: Indo-Asian Pacific - Sri Lanka to Indonesia, Philippines and Solomon Is. S.W. Japan to N. New Guinea.