Butterflyfishes of the genus Chaetodon

Another Chaetodon butterflyfish has been bred in captivity succesfully :
At the University of Florida / Rising Tide Conservation the Banded butterflyfish - Chaetodon striatus succesfully bred for the first time in captivity :).
 
Yesterday I visited the Palais de la Porte Dorée Aquarium at Paris - France and found a very intresting collection of Butterflyfish species ( among the 1 Lifer for me ! ) :
- Threadfin butterflyfish - Chaetodon auriga ( see Threadfin butterflyfish - Chaetodon auriga - ZooChat )
- Saddled butterflyfish - Chaetodon ephippium
- Lined butterflyfish - Chaetodon lineolatus : a Lifer for me :) ( see Lined butterflyfish - Chaetodon lineolatus - ZooChat )
- Raccoon butterflyfish - Chaetodon lunula ( see Raccoon butterflyfish - Chaetodon lunula - ZooChat )
- Red-tailed butterflyfish - Chaetodon collare ( see Red-tailed butterflyfish - Chaetodon collare - ZooChat )
- Foureye butterflyfish - Chaetodon capristriatus ( see Foureye butterflyfish - Chaetodon capistriatus - ZooChat )
- Spotfin butterflyfish - Chaetodon ocellatus ( see Spotfin butterflyfish - Chaetodon ocellatus - ZooChat )
- Cross-hatch butterflyfish - Chaetodon xanthurus ( see Cross-hatch butterflyfish - Chaetodon xanthurus - ZooChat )
- Klein's butterflyfish - Chaetodon kleinii ( see Klein's butterflyfish - Chaetodon kleinii - ZooChat )
This makes 9 species at one public collection !
 
vogelcommando said:
By coincidence I may have found another Chaetodon - butterflyfish-species in the Gallery. By a random-search through all kind of galleries I came across a picture ( see P10903601 | ZooChat ) made by Zebraduiker in 2009 at the Adventure Aquarium in the USA.
In the middle of the photo - a little to the rigth actualy - there is a black and white fish which could be a Banded butterflyfish ( Chaetodon striatus ) and on the left side of the picture there is a second one. These would be the first Banded butterflyfishes in the Gallery but because the photo is not clear enough I'm not 100 % sure.
Therefor I want to ask anybody who has visited the Adventure Aquarium or is going to visit it, to inform me if this species is ( was ? ) really kept at this collection and if anybody has more clear photos of the fishes and eventually of the sign . Any help is appriciated !
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Thankt to @RatioTile we now have this species for sure in our Gallery :) ! He made this photo at the New York Aquarium.

Banded Butterflyfish (Chaetodon striatus)

Banded Butterflyfish (Chaetodon striatus)

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Seen 02/2020.
 
By searching for something completly different I came along a intresting photo made at the Bronx Zoo in 1923. From a collecting trip to the Florida Keys a large shipment of fishes for the aquarium. Among them a good number of Spotfin butterflyfishes ( Chaetodon ocellatus ), being the first note I've find sofar of being this species kept at a public aquarium :

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And by digging furter in the old literature I also found this one made at the New York Aquarium ( at that time part of the Bronx Zoo ? ) of Four-eyed butterflyfish - chaetodon capristriatus ) :

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Yes, I've actually seen that hybrid on Christmas Island, and quite a few others (in other families).

:p

Hix
 
vogelcommando said:
43 ) Chaetodon melapterus - Arabian butterflyfish. 1984 it was kept at Berlin Zoo and was called Chaetodon arabicus. There are no photos of this rare species in the Gallery.
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Just uploaded the first photo of this species in the Gallery :). Saw my first specimen ( about 5 centimeters ) at Coralandfishstore at Breda - the Netherlands ... a LIFER for me !

Arabian butterflyfish - Chaetodon melapterus

Arabian butterflyfish - Chaetodon melapterus

Coralandfishstore - Breda - the Netherlands
 
Just seen this thread about one of my favourite genera of reef fishes. I have lots of images of this genus in the wild including I think some of the ones which are missing from the gallery, I will try and have a dig around for some more.
Anyway here are 2 of the Red Sea endemics which I think are missing from the gallery as far as I can see- Chaetodon larvatus and C. Paucifasciatus
Chaetodon paucifasciatus

Chaetodon paucifasciatus

Taken 2019, Hurghada area
Chaetodon larvatus

Chaetodon larvatus

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Taken 2018, Hamata area
 
Made a list of species I've seen sofar and came to no less then 35 ( maybe even 36 ) species !
Numbering of the species is from the species-list I used at the beginning of this thread :
6 - C. auriga
8 - C. austriacus
9 - C. baronessa
10 - C. bennetti
12 - C. burgessi
13 - C. capistratus
14 - C. citrinellus
15 - C. collare
17 - C. declivis
18 - C. decussatus
21 - C. ephippium
22 - C. falcula
23 - C. fasciatus
33 - C. kleinii
36 - C. lineolatus
38 - C. lunula
39 - C. lunulatus
40 - C. madagaskariensis
42 - C. melannotus
43 - C. melapterus
46 - C. meyeri
53 - C. ocellatus
55 - C. octofasciatus
62 - C. punctatofasciatus
64 - C. rafflesii
69 - C. sedentarius
72 - C. semilarvatus
76 - C. tinkeri
80 - C. trifascialis
81 - C. trifasciatus
82 - C. ulietensis
83 - C. unimaculatus
84 - C. vagabundus
86 - C. xanthocephalus
87 - C. xanthurus
About the Andaman butterflyfish - Chaetodon andamanensis I'm still not 100 % sure if the animal I've seen was realy this species so - for the moment - I don't count it.
 
vogelcommando said:
Thank you very much @Greenshank ! Realy beautiful photos of beautiful fishes and a great help to archieve as much as possible different species in the Gallery.
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Glad I could be of help. That's an impressive list of species you've seen, I've seen 38 but that's only including ones I've seen in the wild.
Chaetodon ulietensis and possible hybrid

Chaetodon ulietensis and possible hybrid

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Taken 2017, Sogod Bay, Southern Leyte
Not a new species of such, but an interesting photo of a Chaetodon ulietensis paired with an apparent C. ulietensis x C. rafflesi hybrid
 
Greenshank said:
Chaetodon ulietensis and possible hybrid

Chaetodon ulietensis and possible hybrid

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Taken 2017, Sogod Bay, Southern Leyte
Not a new species of such, but an interesting photo of a Chaetodon ulietensis paired with an apparent C. ulietensis x C. rafflesi hybrid
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I think your tentative ID is correct, it's about half way between the two. Very interesting photo and very unique fish.
 
For 2 days I visited the local fishshop and althrough on their stocklist no new butterflyfishes were mentioned I was happyly surprised to find a new species for me !
The Eye-patch butterflyfish ( aka Philippine bff ) - Chaetodon adiergastos is now and then listed on their stocklist as being avaible but in the last 5 years I never found it ( stocklists of aquarium-shops are not always up-to-date ) and I went several times to see especialy this species but every time it was not there.... This time it was not on the stocklist but in a mixed aquarium with a good number of other butterflyfishes-species I discovered a large specimen and took a good number of photos of it because this was a Lifer for me :) ! I've uploaded already a photo in our Gallery because sofar only one other photo was sofar to be found there, uploaded by @devilfish .
The photo I've uploaded in our Gallery :
Eye-patch butterflyfish - Chaetodon adiergastos

Eye-patch butterflyfish - Chaetodon adiergastos

Sept. 29 2021 - Coralandfishstore - Breda / the Netherlands
 
Last month I visited the Czech Rep. and one of my main goals was to visit Morsky svet - in English better known as the Prague Sea World Aquarium because I had seen on their website that they should have several Butterflyfishes and one of them would be a Lifer for me.
The species seen on the website were :
13) Four-eye bff - Chaetodon capistratus
38) Raccoon bff - Chaetodon lunula
53) Spot-fin bff - Chaetodon ocellatus
54) Tail-spot bff - Chaetodon ocellicaudus ( or C. ocellicaudatus ? )
It was this last species which I wanted to see because it would be a Lifer for me, there are still no photos of this species in our Gallery and because even ZTL don't mention this species at all - not in the list of former keepers and not by the present keepers.
Althrough I searched all the aquariums very thorough I didn't find a single Butterflyfish :( ! The only sign of Butterflyfishes was a sign of the Raccoon bff :
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Later I talked with the manager of the Aquarium and he told me that they used to have all the above mentioned species but now none of the species was anymore there and the sign of the Raccoon bff should already been removed but somehow somebody forgot it.
So no Butterflyfishes for me this time at Prague...
 

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vogelcommando said:
41 ) Chaetodon marleyi - Doublesash butterflyfish, couldn't find any information about this species being kept in aquariums and there are also no photos of this species in the Gallery.
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Thanks to @wstefan we have another new species in our Gallery :). He made a beautiful photo of this species at the Two Ocean Aquarium in South Africa. Already @devilfish mentioned that he had seen the species in said Aquarium but uploaded sofar no photo of it so @wstefan s is the first. Thanks ! :

Doublesash Butterflyfish (Chaetodon marleyi)

Doublesash Butterflyfish (Chaetodon marleyi)

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Nov. 2019 in a large group at the indian ocean galery
 
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