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genus Chaetodon - type genus of the Chaetodontidae

fish genus - any of various genus of fish

Chaetodontidae, family Chaetodontidae - butterfly fishes

chaetodon - any fish of the genus Chaetodon

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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.

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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

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