Chaetodon pelewensis Sunset Butterflyfish, Dot Dash Butterflyfish, Spotbanded Butterflyfish, Punctato Butterflyfish

Chaetodon pelewensis is commonly referred to as Sunset Butterflyfish, Dot Dash Butterflyfish, Spotbanded Butterflyfish, Punctato Butterflyfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Alleen voor experts! Zeer moeilijk houdbaar . A aquarium size of at least 800 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Dot and Dash Butterflyfish, Fiji, Beqa Lagoon, 2008

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lexID:: 1543
AphiaID:: 273353

Scientific:: Chaetodon pelewensis
German:: Diagonalstreifen-Falterfisch
English:: Sunset Butterflyfish, Dot Dash Butterflyfish, Spotbanded Butterflyfish, Punctato Butterflyfish

Category:: Koraalvlinders

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Chaetodontidae (Family) > Chaetodon (Genus) > pelewensis (Species)
Initial determination:: Kner, 1868

Occurrence:: American Samoa, Austral Islands, Australia, Bora Bora, Central Pazific, Chile, Cook Islands, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Eastern Pacific Ocean, Fiji, French Polynesia, Gambier Islands, Great Barrier Reef, Indonesia, Kiribati, Line Islands, Lord Howe Island, Marquesas Islands, Moorea, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Niue, Norfolk Island, Palau, Papua, Papua New Guinea, Phoenix Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Queensland (Australia), Rangiroa, Samoa, Solomon Islands, South-Pazific, Sulawesi, Tahiti, the Society Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuamoto Islands, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Western Pacific Ocean
Marine Zone:: Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic.
Sea depth:: 1 - 30 Meter
Habitats:: Reef-associated, Seawater, Sea water
Size:: 12,5 cm
Temperature:: 76.28 °F - 83.48 °F (24.6°C - 28.6°C)
Food:: Carnivore, Coral polyps = corallivorous, Invertebrates, Zoobenthos
Tank:: 175.98 gal (~ 800L)
Difficulty:: Alleen voor experts! Zeer moeilijk houdbaar
Offspring:: Not available as offspring
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Least concern (LC)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

More related species in this lexicon:

Chaetodon sp.
Falterfisch

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2005-06-06 08:29:34
Last edit:: 2025-07-12 09:38:20

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Chaetodon pelewensis Kner, 1868

Chaetodon pelewensis also commonly referred as the Sunset butterflyfish. Chaetodon pelewensis inhabits reefs with abundant coral cover and is well known as coral eater and eats as well small invertebrates.

Synonymised names
Chaetodon germanus De Vis, 1884 · unaccepted
Chaetodon pelewensis germanus De Vis, 1884 · unaccepted

Direct children (1)
Subspecies Chaetodon pelewensis germanus De Vis, 1884 accepted as Chaetodon pelewensis Kner, 1868

External links

FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Wikipedia (en). Abgerufen am 12.07.2025.

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Pair

Foto: Huahine, Gesellschaftsinseln, Französisch-Polynesien

Commonly

Dot and Dash Butterflyfish, Fiji, Beqa Lagoon, 2008

Copyright J. E. Randall, Foto Australien, Great Barrier Reef

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