Butterflyfishes of the genus Chaetodon

Spotted Butterflyfish
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Hix
 
Spotted Butterflyfish
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Hix

Beautifull photo @Hix ! This is the problem with this ( and many other ) (fish )genera : several English names for the same species and sometimes even the same English name for different species ! This one ( the Spotted or Peppered butterflyfish ) is Chaetodon guttatissimus. When did you upload it ?
 
vogelcommando said:
When did you upload it ?

Almost 6 years ago. Along with this one:

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and this one

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Hix
 
[QUOTE="vogelcommando]When did you upload it ?

Almost 6 years ago. Along with this one:
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and this one

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Hix[/QUOTE]

Must have missed them when creating this thread, sorry :( ! ( BTW realy nice photo's of this nice species ! ).
 
And these are hybrid Spotted x Spot-banded (C. guttatisimus x punctatofasciatus)

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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.


Update of my Chaetodon-life-list because last weekend I saw 2 Lifers at Burger's Zoo - the Netherlands. Both were living in the enormous Shark-basin :
5 - Chaetodon aureofasciatus - the Golden butterflyfish. From this species I've just uploaded the first photo of this species in our Gallery. The single fish at Burger's is the only one at the moment living in an European public collection.
View media item 61513544 - Chaetodon mertensii - the Merten's butterflyfish :
View media item 615136Last year I had already seen number 1 of the species-list ( Chaetodon adiergastos - the Eye-patch butterflyfish ) so now I've seen a total of at least 38 different species of this genus :).
 
Part 2 :
11 ) Chaetodon blackburnii - Brownburnie, no information about being kept in Europe and also no photos in the Gallery.
20 ) Chaetodon dolosus - African butterflyfish. Also from this species no captive experience and no photos.

I photographed both these species on Monday, sadly however the facility does not wish to have photos of their stock posted online otherwise I would have posted them for inclusion in this thread. :(
 
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