- Animals
- ›Chordates
- ›Vertebrates
- ›Ray-finned Fishes
- ›Spiny-rayed fishes
- ›Butterflyfishes, Angelfishes, and Allies
- ›Butterflyfishes
- ›Butterflyfishes
Prognathodes
Prognathodes is a genus of butterflyfish in the family Chaetodontidae. They are found at rocky reefs in tropical oceans around the world and are mainly found deeper than Chaetodon; often a depths below those possible in normal scuba diving. In the past they were commonly included in the genus Chaetodon. They are whitish, yellow, black and dark brown, and reach 10–16 centimetres (3.9–6.3 in) in length.
14 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 14 known species
Longsnout Butterflyfish
speciesPrognathodes aculeatus
Southern Scythe Butterflyfish
speciesPrognathodes carlhubbsi
Scythe Butterflyfish
speciesPrognathodes falcifer
French Butterflyfish
speciesPrognathodes marcellae
Bicolor butterflyfish
speciesPrognathodes dichrous
Brazilian Butterflyfish
speciesPrognathodes brasiliensis
Bank Butterflyfish
speciesPrognathodes aya
Pete Basabe's Butterflyfish
speciesPrognathodes basabei
Guyote Butterflyfish
speciesPrognathodes guyotensis
Guyana Butterflyfish
speciesPrognathodes guyanensis
Spectral butterflyfish
speciesPrognathodes thanatos
Gueze's butterflyfish
speciesPrognathodes guezei
Twin butterflyfish
speciesPrognathodes geminus
Oblique butterflyfish
speciesPrognathodes obliquus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Prognathodes in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 91325.