Chaetodon baronessa Cuvier, 1831

Triangular Butterflyfish

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Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:9fa86fd3-b0c4-4f50-b8a8-27bda965ba15

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Species presence

 Recorded In Australia
 Marine Habitats

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    Source: Australian National Fish Collection Images
    Image by: BIO Photography Group, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario
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Description

The Eastern Triangular Butterflyfish has a silvery purple body with cream or yellow chevron-shaped markings. There are three dark bars on the head including one through the eye. It has a broad dark bar with yellow edges on the tail. It has a highly compressed body enabling it to shelter amongst coral branches.... source: OZ Animals

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Species Lists

RLS profile v3
IUCN_Threat_status: Least Concern
Threats: Overharvesting for aquarium trade
Abundance: 3.352
Common_Name: Triangular butterflyfish;
Range: 141.668
Behaviour: Generally occurs in pairs, which move slowly over the reef within small territories picking at small invertebrates.
Frequency: 21.913
Invasive: Not known to be invasive
Description: Buttterflyfish with thin cream chevron-shaped lines across purple-grey body, three dark vertical bars across head, and dark bar with pale edges across tail. Distinguished from very similar Chaetodon triangulum by possessing a yellowish-grey rather than black tail.

Names and sources

Accepted name Source
Chaetodon baronessa

Synonyms

Synonyms Source
Gonochaetodon triangulum Cuvier, 1831
Gonochaetodon triangulum Cuvier, 1831
Published in: Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. Vol. 89 (1) pp. 11-127
Gonochaetodon triangulum Cuvier, 1831
Published in: McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part II. Mem. Aust. Mus. Vol. 5 pp. 145–329

Common Names

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Triangular Butterflyfish
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Baroness Butterflyfish
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Eastern Triangular Butterflyfish
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Herringbone Coralfish
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Pacific Triangular Butterflyfish
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Triangular Coralfish
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Baronessa Butterflyfish
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Eastern Triangle Butterflyfish
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Working classification

kingdom
ANIMALIA
phylum
CHORDATA
subphylum
VERTEBRATA
suprageneric
GNATHOSTOMATA
suprageneric
PISCES
class
ACTINOPTERYGII
subphylum
EUTELEOSTEI
superorder
ACANTHOPTERYGII
order
PERCIFORMES
suborder
PERCOIDEI
family
CHAETODONTIDAE
genus
Chaetodon
species
Chaetodon baronessa  Recorded in Australia

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