Name: Klein's butterflyfish, sunburst butterflyfish
Scientific Name: Chaetodon kleinii (Bloch, 1790)
Family: Chaetodontidae
Group: Bony fish
Class: Fish
Size: 11-25 cm.
To identify this fish one must search for a white dot in the middle of each scale. It lives in the deep lagoons of reefs and on their periphery, at depths below 10 metres. It feeds mainly on soft corals.
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Oceanário Location
Tropical Indian
