The Chevroned Butterflyfish has a white body with black chevron markings on the side. A black bar passes through the eye and the caudal fin is black with a yellow margin. Juvenile Chevroned Butterflyfish are similar to the adults, except they have a yellow caudal fin and a black bar across the rear of the body.... source: Australian Museum Factsheets
The Chevroned Butterflyfish is white with narrow chevron markings on the body. It has a bold black bar through the eye. The tail is black with a yellow margin. Juveniles are similar to adults but have yellow tail and a black bar across the rear of the body. It is territorial and defends its territory from other coral-eating butterflyfish.... source: OZ Animals
| Australian iconic species | |
| RLS profile v3 | |
| Description: | Squarish butterflyfish with about 17 thin black chevrons on white sides, spiky orange dorsal fin, black bar through eye, and black tailfin bordered in orange. Distinguished from Chaetodon mertensii by more chevrons on side (about 17 not 5-6) and black rather than orange tail. |
| Frequency: | 4.068 |
| IUCN_Threat_status: | Near Threatened |
| Invasive: | Not known to be invasive |
| Diet: | hard corals |
| Range: | 2162.040 |
| Behaviour: | Generally occurs in pairs, which move slowly over the reef within small territories picking at small invertebrates. |
| Threats: | Overharvesting for aquarium trade |
| Abundance: | 3.315 |
| Common_Name: | Chevron butterflyfish;Chevroned butterflyfish |
| Accepted name | Source |
|---|---|
| Chaetodon trifascialis |
| Synonyms | Source |
|---|---|
| Megaprotodon strigantulatus (Gmelin, 1789) | |
| Megaprotodon strigantulatus (Gmelin, 1789) | |
| Published in: Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. Vol. 89 (1) pp. 11-127 | |
| Megaprotodon trifascialis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) | |
| Megaprotodon trifascialis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) | |
| Published in: Allen, G.R., Hoese, D.F., Paxton, J.R., Randall, J.E., Russell, B.C., Starck, W.A., Talbot, F.H. & Whitley, G.P. 1976. Annotated checklist of the fishes of Lord Howe Island. Rec. Aust. Mus. Vol. 30 (15) pp. 365-454 figs 1-2 | |
| Megaprotodon trifascialis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) | |
| Published in: Dor, M. 1984. CLOFRES, Checklist of the Fishes of the Red Sea Jerusalem : Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities pp. 437 pp. 2 figs | |
| Chaetodon strigangulus Cuvier, 1831 | |
| Published in: Cuvier, G.L. in Cuvier, G.L. & Valenciennes, A. 1831. Histoire Naturelle des Poissons Paris : Levrault Vol. 7 pp. 531 pp. pls 170-208 | |
| Common name | Source |
|---|---|
| Chevron Butterflyfish | |
| Chevroned Butterflyfish | |
| Right-angled Butterfly-fish | |
| Acropora Butterfly | |
| Rightangle Butterflyfish | |
| Rightangled Butterflyfish | |
| Triangulate Butterflyfish | |
| V-lined Butterflyfish |
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