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Updated 11/6/2012

Family Chaetodontidae

TROPICAL WESTERN ATLANTIC

Chaetodon ocellatus

Grand Bahama Island, 40 feet

 

 

Looe Key, Florida, 25 feet

SPOTFIN BUTTERFLYFISH

Fairly common on coral reefs to 100 feet.  Feeds upon invertebrates.  Attains 8 inches.  Florida to Brazil, juvenile waifs sometimes north to Nova Scotia.