English: Butterflyfish, Bannerfish, Coralfish.
Genera: 12; 129 species, 1 family
Chaetodontidae.
Region: Atlantic, Indian, Pacific Oceans.
Habitat: tropical marine; coral reefs.
ZoologyFish; conspicuous; Chaetodon, Butterflyfish look like smaller versions of angelfish, Pomacanthidae; Heniochus resemble Zanclus cornutus) of the monotypic Zanclidae. Among the paraphyletic
Perciformes.
Gills: lack preopercle spines at the gill covers.