Scientific Name: Chaetodon ephippium
Family: Butterflyfish - Chaetodontidae
Maximum Size: 23cm
Description: Blue-gray with blue lines on lower body; large white-bordered black patch upper rear body, orange area from snout to ventral fins.
Favourite: Solitary or in pairs.
Hide-out: Coral-rich areas in lagoons and seaward reefs to 30m.
Location: Indo-Pacific - Sri Lanka to Indonesia, Philippines, Micronesia and French Polynesia. S.W. Japan to N.W. & N.E. Australia.
Saddled Butterflyfish
Labels: Butterflyfish
Yoshii's Damsel
Scientific Name: Pomacentrus yoshii
Family: Damselfishes - Pomacentridae
Maximum Size: 8cm
Identification: Overall yellow, often with dusky brown area covering sides; blue markings on head, large black spot on pectoral fin base.
Favourite: Solitary or form loose groups.
Hide-out: in 2-25m.
Location: Southern Marshall Is. in Micronesia.
Labels: Damsel
Orangepeel Angelfish
Scientific Name: Centropyge shepardi
Family: Angelfish - Pomacanthidae
Maximum Size: 12cm
Identification: Red-orange with narrow dark bars, rear dorsal and anal fins also black.
Hide-out: Exposed outer reefs on mixed live and dead coral bottoms in 10-56m.
Location: Mariana Is. in Micronesia and Bonin Is. north to Japan's Izu National Park.
Labels: Angelfish
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