Chaetodontidae

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Chaetodontidae - butterfly fishes family Chaetodontidaefish family - any of various families of fishorder Perciformes, order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi - one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tunabutterfly fish - small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwidegenus Chaetodon - type genus of the Chaetodontidaegenus Pomacanthus, Pomacanthus - angelfishes

Chaetodontidae

[‚kēd·ō′dän·tə‚dē] (vertebrate zoology) The butterflyfishes, a family of perciform fishes in the suborder Percoidei.

Chaetodontidae

a family of fishes of the order Perciformes. The tall, laterally compressed body usually reaches a length of 25 cm. The coloration is a bright mottling. The fishes are solitary. They are not good long-distance swimmers but when pursued by predators easily find a hiding place in the cavities or crevices of reefs. The fishes inhabit shallows of the world ocean and are most numerous in the tropics, where they invariably appear around coral reefs. There are about 150 species. Best known are the butterfly fishes and angelfishes (the latter are often assigned to the separate family Pomacanthidae).

REFERENCES

Zhizn’ zhivotnykh, vol. 4, part 1. Moscow, 1971.

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noun butterfly fishes

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