Millet butterflyfish
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| Chaetodon miliaris Quoy & Gaimard, 1825 |
The millet butterflyfish, Chaetodon miliaris, is a butterflyfish of the family Chaetodontidae found in the eastern Central Pacific from Johnston Island and Hawaii, at depths down to 250 m. Its length is up to 13 cm.
The millet butterflyfish is generally yellow or white with vertical rows of spots on the sides - a broad black bar runs vertically through the eye from the edge of the sub-opercle, and there is a large black spot on the caudal peduncle.
It inhabits shallow reef flats and seamounts and forms schools at midwater to feed on plankton and benthic invertebrates.
Reproduction is oviparous, with pairs forming during breeding.
[edit] References
- "Chaetodon miliaris". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. June 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
