Family: Butterflyfish - Chaetodontidae
Maximum Size: 16cm
Description: Yellow-orange with brown upper body; pair of white spots on back.
Favourite: Solitary or in pairs; feed almost exclusively on Pocillopora corals.
Hide-out: Exposed rocky reefs with scattered coral growth in 2-15m.
Location: Northern Pacific - Taiwan and S.W. Japan to Hawaii and French Polynesia.
Fourspot Butterflyfish
Banded Damsel
Scientific Name: Dischistodus fasciatus
Family: Damselfishes - Pomacentridae
Maximum Size: 13cm
Identification: Pale with dark bar through eye; wide brown body bar.
Favourite: Often aggressive toward divers.
Hide-out: Shoreline and lagoon reefs with silt and sand bottoms to 8m.
Location: Asian Pacific - Indonesia and Philippines.
Staghorn Damsel
Family: Damselfishes - Pomacentridae
Maximum Size: 11.5cm
Identification: Pale greenish to whitish with three wide, dark green bars; mid-body may be yellow.
Favourite: Usually form groups.
Hide-out: Commonly shelter among branches of staghorn Acropora coral on coastal reefs, lagoons and outer slopes to 15m.
Location: West Pacific - Singapore to Vanuatu, Samoa and Marshall Is. S.W. Japan to N.W. Australia and Great Barrier Reef.
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