Yellow-Crowned Butterflyfish

Scientific Name: Chaetodon flavocoronatus
Family: Butterflyfish - Chaetodontidae
Maximum Size: 12cm
Description: White with numerous dark dots, yellow tail; broad black diagonal area across rear of body, yellow band on nape.
Favourite: Solitary or in pairs.
Hide-out: Shelter in black corals and sea fans on steep slopes in 35-75m.
Location: Known only from Guam (Orote Peninsula) in the Mariana Is, Micronesia.

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