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Chaetodon

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Chaetodon

Genus of spiny-rayed fishes known as butterfly fishes.



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These cichlids are unique in having a strongly laterally compressed discoidal shape, similar to the marine butterflyfishes of the genus Chaetodon.
Carroll & Kempf 1990), butterflyfish (Chelmon rostratus Linnaeus and Chaetodon kleini Bloch), and peppermint shrimp are commonly used as successful natural predators of Aiptasia.
 
 
 
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