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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Chaetodontidae

Butterflyfishes

WoRMS 125528ITIS 169554GBIF 8517key worms:125528
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2026-08-05: itis_id 169554 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · perevolotsky · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Chaetodon melapterus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Chaetodontidae
Photo · 116916927065934112165 · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The butterflyfish are a group of conspicuous tropical marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae; the bannerfish and coralfish are also included in this group. The approximately 129 species in 12 genera are found mostly on the reefs of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.W CalCOFI holds 8 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1963 and 2002, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

8
observations
8
records
6
sampling events
1963–2002
years
1
datasets
0
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 6 obs · 6 events · 1963–2002 · larva
    name used: Chaetodontidae Butterflyfishes · code 608

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125528%22