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Spiny Butterflyfish
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Spiny Butterflyfish

Hemitaurichthys multispinosus

The many-spined butterflyfish (Hemitaurichthys multispinosus), also known as the multispine butterflyfish or spiny butterflyfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish from the family Chaetodontidae, which is associated with deeper reefs around three island groups in the southern central Pacific Ocean.

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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 102617.