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chaetodon

(ˈkiːtəʊˌdɒn)
n
a less common name for butterflyfish
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Noun1.chaetodon - any fish of the genus Chaetodonchaetodon - any fish of the genus Chaetodon  
butterfly fish - small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide
genus Chaetodon - type genus of the Chaetodontidae
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The Tinker Butterfly (Chaetodon tinkeri) is typically collected around the Hawaiian Islands and occasionally in the Marshall Islands; to our knowledge this is the first example of Cook Islands-collected C.
Quality Marine Receives Rare Species from the Cook Islands
Declines in the abundance of Chaetodon butterflyfishes following extensive coral depletion.
Cambios en la comunidad de peces por efecto del desarrollo costero en el Parque Nacional Huatulco (Mexico)
Natural cleaning of the black-lip pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera by butterflyfishes (Chaetodon) in French Polynesia.
ECONOMIC MODELING OF ROUND PEARL CULTURE IN FIJI AND ASSESSMENT OF VIABLE FARM SIZE
0.50 3.65 2.34 Bodianus pulchellus 0.43 0.38 1.14 Chromis cyanea 1.81 0.68 0.17 Chaetodon sedentarius 0.35 0.73 0.71 Equetus lanceolatus 0.00 0.24 1.97 Centropyge argi 0.28 0.57 0.17 Canthigaster rostrata 0.08 0.03 1.29 Epinephelus morio# 0.38 0.49 0.46 Holacanthus tricolor 0.38 0.16 0.26 Serranus tortugarum 0.06 0.03 0.00 Mycteroperca phenax# 0.44 0.05 0.23 Sparisoma atomarium 0.13 0.00 0.49 Liopropoma eukrines 0.03 0.19 0.23 Holacanthus bermudensis 0.19 0.11 0.31 Chaetodon ocellatus 0.00 0.11 0.23 Stegastes partitus 0.06 0.14 0.00 Pronotogrammus martinicensis 0.00 0.16 0.26 Apogon pseudomaculatus 0.00 0.14 0.20 Halichoeres spp.
Fish assemblages associated with red grouper pits at Pulley Ridge, a mesophotic reef in the Gulf of Mexico
The butterfly fish of the genus Chaetodon are some of the most distinctive and familiar of the Red Sea reef fishes, almost disc-shaped with a short to long and pointed snout and generally colored and patterned boldly in black and white and yellow.
The Eyes Have It
These include species such as the Cortez Angelfish, Pomacanthus zonipectus (Pomacanthidae), and the Three Banded Butterflyfish, Chaetodon humeralis (Chaetodontidae), which have been observed (but not collected) within the La Jolla study area (Lea et al.
Fishes of marine protected areas near La Jolla, California
Soares et al., "Extensive chromosome conservatism in Atlantic butterflyfishes, genus Chaetodon Linnaeus, 1758: implications for the high hybridization success," Zoologischer Anzeiger, vol.
Sequential steps of chromosomal differentiation in Atlantic surgeonfishes: evolutionary inferences
iomelas 15 3 1 7 7 3 Although no exact benchmark is available for species-level divergence among reef fish taxa based on cyt b (but see Johns & Avise 1998), our findings are consistent with the 2% cyt b divergence among recognized Chaetodon species (McMillan & Palumbi 1995) and approached the level of divergence observed among some closely related species of Das-gllus (Bernardi & Crane 1999).
A new species of damselfish (Pomacentridae) from the Indian Ocean
Trade-offs associated with dietary specialization in corallivorous butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae: Chaetodon).
Success of slimy sculpin reintroductions in Minnesota trout streams: influence of feeding and diets
percula (T) days (2007) Chaetodon larvae 29-48 100-500 m Almany et al.
Pelagic larval duration and dispersal distance revisited
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