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Chaetodon

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125954ITIS 169555GBIF 2369550key worms:125954
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2026-08-05: itis_id 169555 via WoRMS external link

Chaetodon is a tropical fish genus in the family Chaetodontidae. Like their relatives, they are known as "butterflyfish".W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1966 and 2002, as larva.R

2
observations
2
records
2
sampling events
1966–2002
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
I got very close to this little fellow (Chaetodon capistratus). So, I airbrushed the outer edges of the photo slide frame after scanning so the crop wouldn't look too strange. Can you figure out how t
Photo · LASZLO ILYES (laszlo-photo) from Cleveland, Ohio, USA · CC BY 2.0 · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.

  • 2 obs2 events1966–2002larva
    name used: Chaetodon · code 1750

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125954%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

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

Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Chaetodontidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Chaetodon vagabundus · source
  • Photo · LASZLO ILYES (laszlo-photo) from Cleveland, Ohio, USA · CC BY 2.0 · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Chaetodon” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1372862147
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.19

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗