Spotfin Butterflyfish
Chaetodon ocellatus
Summary 3
The spotfin butterflyfish, Chaetodon ocellatus, is a butterflyfish found in the western Atlantic Ocean, in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.
General description 4
Chaetodon ocellatus Bloch, 1787
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Rigoberto Moreno Mendoza ; individualCount: 1 ; Location: continent: America; country: Mexico ; stateProvince: Yucatan; locality: Madagascar Reef ; verbatimLatitude: 781272.611854; verbatimLongitude: 2373443.69326; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM 15N; verbatimSRS: WGS84; decimalLatitude: 21.441469 ; decimalLongitude: -90.286290 ; Event: samplingProtocol: Photosampling ; eventDate: 13/5/2005
Distribution
Western Atlantic. Maine to Brazil. Including Bermuda, Bahamas and throughout the Caribbean Islands.
Sources and Credits
- (c) Bryant Kevin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/caribbean/resources/img/images/species/3843_10429.jpg
- (c) Kevin Bryant, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/mentalblock/8353375226/
- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaetodon_ocellatus
- Adapted by North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher from a work by (c) Unknown, some rights reserved (<license>Public Domain</license>), http://eol.org/data_objects/31442279
