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Oman Butterflyfish
Chaetodon dialeucos
The Oman butterflyfish (Chaetodon dialeucos) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish belonging to the family Chaetodontidae. It is native to the northwestern Indian Ocean.
From the article Oman butterflyfish on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The Oman butterflyfish is a rather drab butterflyfish which has a greyish coloured body with the margins of the scales being dark brown. There is a broad, vertical white bar to the rear of the head and the mouth is white. The caudal fin is black which is slightly rounded. The dorsal fin contains 12 spines and 21-22 soft rays while the anal fin has 3 spines and 19 soft rays. This species grows to a maximum total length of 18 centimetres (7.1 in). Juveniles have a sharply defined white stripe to the rear of the eye and a white caudal fin.
Range & habitat
The Oman butterflyfish is found in the northwestern Indian Ocean in the Arabian Sea along the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen and Oman.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 97155.