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Threadfin butterflyfish
Chaetodon auriga
Valid name.
- English
- Threadfin butterflyfish
- Scientific
- Chaetodon auriga
- Dhivehi
- ނަރުވާ ބިބީNaruvaa bibee
- Group
- Reef fish
- Maximum size
- About 23-25 cm
- Depth and habitat
- Reef flats, lagoons and outer reefs, 0 to about 60 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2009
Description
A white butterflyfish with two sets of dark diagonal lines meeting at a right angle, a yellow rear body, a black bar through the eye and, in adults, a thread-like extension trailing from the dorsal fin. Indian Ocean adults usually have a black spot near the dorsal filament. It picks at coral polyps, worms, small crustaceans and algae. Pairs often stay together for long periods.
In the Maldives
Common throughout Maldivian reefs, usually in pairs.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Chaetodon-auriga.html
- fao.org /4/AD471E/AD471E00.htm
- dv.wikipedia.org /wiki/ނަރުވާ_ބިބީ
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Bep_chaetodon_auriga_pemba.jpg
Dhivehi name source: Thaana from Dhivehi Wikipedia (fish articles derived from the MRS 1997 Dhivehi edition); Latin transliterated by Pax from the Thaana. Not found in the MRS 1997 text that survives online.