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Chaetodon selene Yellow-dotted butterflyfish      
MS
Kingdom - Animalia - animals
   Phylum - Chordata - chordates
      Subphylum - Vertebrata - vertebrates
         Superclass - Osteichthyes - peixe ósseo
            Class - Actinopterygii - poissons à nageoires rayonnées
               Subclass - Neopterygii - neopterygians
                  Infraclass - Teleostei
                     Superorder - Acanthopterygii
                        Order - Perciformes - perch-like fishes
                           Suborder - Percoidei
                              Family - Chaetodontidae - poissons-papillons
                                 Genus - Chaetodon (Linnaeus, 1758) - butterflyfishes
                                    Species - Chaetodon selene (Bleeker, 1853)

Fishbase Information (FISHBASE.ORG)

Yellow-dotted butterflyfish 

16.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; Ref. 9710)

reef-associated; marine; depth range 8 - 50 m

tropical

Western Pacific: a poorly known species which has been recorded from West New Guinea, Indonesia (Ref. 5978), Papua New Guinea (Ref. 6192), Taiwan (Ref. 5193), and Japan (Ref. 559).

Dorsal spines(total): 12; Dorsal soft rays(total): 20-22; Analspines: 3; Analsoft rays: 18-19. Series of yellow dots, running at diagonal lines over the sides. A black band extending from caudal peduncle along bases of dorsal and anal fins (Ref. 48636).

Inhabit coastal reefs, primarily on rubble slopes (Ref. 9710). Oviparous (Ref. 205). Adults usually swim in pairs in search of small benthic invertebrates (Ref. 48636).

Fishbase Credit - Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2005.FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version (06/2005).