Oman butterflyfish

This species grows to a maximum total length of 18 centimetres (7.1 in).[1] The Oman butterflyfish lives in rocky and coral reefs as well as on patches of coral on sloping seabeds made up is sand at depths of 5 to 25 metres (16 to 82 ft).Its diet is made up is coral polyps, sea anemones, worms, crustaceans, and algae.[3] The Oman butterflyfish was first formally described in 1989 by Rodney V. Salm and Kevin Mee with the type locality given as southwest of Barr al Hikman in the Sultanate of Oman.[5] Some authorities place this species within the large subgenus Rabdophorus but others consider it to be incertae sedis.
Conservation statusLeast ConcernIUCN 3.1Scientific classificationEukaryotaAnimaliaChordataActinopterygiiAcanthuriformesChaetodontidaeChaetodonBinomial nameray-finned fishbutterflyfishfamilycaudal findorsal finanal fintotal lengthArabian SeaArabian Peninsulapolypssea anemonescrustaceansoviparousspawningincertae sedisIUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesFroese, RainerFishBaseEschmeyer, William N.Catalog of FishesCalifornia Academy of SciencesWikidataiNaturalistOpen Tree of Life