Bluelashed butterflyfish
Chaetodon bennetti
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Bluelashed butterflyfish
- Scientific
- Chaetodon bennetti
- Dhivehi
- ފަތްމިނި ބިބީFaiymini bibee
- Group
- Reef fish
- Maximum size
- Up to about 20 cm (total length)
- Depth and habitat
- Coral reefs and reef-associated habitats, recorded from 0 to 50 m
- IUCN status
- DD · Data DeficientData Deficient (DD), assessed 2009
Description
A bright yellow butterflyfish with a large blue-ringed black spot on the upper side and two pale blue lines curving down from below the eye like eyelashes. It lives in pairs in coral-rich lagoons and outer reefs and feeds on coral polyps. It is never very common and is very hard to keep in aquariums.
In the Maldives
Dhivehi Wikipedia (MRS-derived) gives faiymini bibee; FishBase (Maldives) gives only the general name dhon bibi.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Chaetodon-bennetti.html
- fishbase.se /comnames/CommonNamesList.php?ID=5559&GenusName=Chaetodon&SpeciesName=
- dv.wikipedia.org /wiki/ފަތްމިނި_ބިބީ
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Bep_chaetodon_bennetti.jpg
Dhivehi name source: FishBase (country: Maldives) gives only the general group name 'Dhon bibi'. Thaana from the Dhivehi Wikipedia article 'ފަތްމިނި ބިބީ' (derived from the MRS 1997 Dhivehi edition). No published Latin-script form found; 'Faiymini bibee' is Pax's transliteration of the Thaana (Malé Latin conventions). FishBase also lists 'Handupholimas', 'Kokkamas' under India (Minicoy/Lakshadweep Mahl dialect); not used. FLAG: Latin form is a transliteration, not a published spelling.