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Family Chaetodontidae

WESTERN ATLANTIC

Chaetodon striatus

9-foot Stake, Key West, FL, 25 feet

 

 

French Reef, Key Largo, 45 feet

BANDED BUTTERFLYFISH

Pairs are locally common on reefs to 60 feet.  Feeds upon sessile invertebrates.  Attains 6 inches.  Bermuda & New Jersey to Brazil & the Gulf of Mexico.  Similar to Chaetodon humeralis of the Tropical Eastern Pacific.