Saltwater fish, Butterflyfish. 15 cm, Deep-bodied and  laterally compressed, with a single dorsal fin and a small mouth with tiny, bristle like teeth. Inhabit corals reefs in shallow water where they swim about, usually in mated pairs in rearch for food.

- Spotfin Butterflyfish Chaetodon ocellatus
- Reef Butterflyfish Chaetodon sedentarius

Size: 15 cm
Colour: white-yellow body with a yellow-edged black bar running across its head through the eye.
Shape: deep-bodied and laterally compressed, with a single dorsal fin and a small mouth with tiny, bristle like teeth.

Inhabits coral reefs, in shallow water where they swim about, usually in mated pairs in rearch for food.

BES-eilanden: St Eustatius.

[Marion Haarsma, feb. 2016]

- DeLoach, N., & Humann, P. (2002). Reef Fish Identification - Florida Caribbean Bahamas - 3th Edition. New World Publications, Inc.

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