Chaetodon guentheri

Chaetodon guentheri has a body which is mainly white to pale yellow in colour and marked with small dark spots which create a pattern of irregular lines.It also occurs off Lord Howe Island, the Great Barrier Reef east to Tonga.[1] Chaetodon guentheri is found on seaward reefs where there is a dense coral growth,[2] at water depths from 5 to 50 metres (16 to 164 ft).[1] They also feed on soft and stony coral polyps, sea anemones, sponges, worms, tunicates, crustaceans and other benthic invertebrates Chaetodon guentheri was first formally described in 1923 by the German zoologist Christoph Gustav Ernst Ahl (1898-1945) with the type locality given as Manado on Sulawesi in Indonesia.[6] The specific name honours the German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist Albert Günther (1830-1914) who first described this species as C. miliaris in 1871.
Conservation statusLeast ConcernIUCN 3.1Scientific classificationEukaryotaAnimaliaChordataActinopterygiiAcanthuriformesChaetodontidaeChaetodonChaetodon (Exornator)Binomial nameC. G. E. AhlSynonymsray-finned fishbutterflyfishfamilydorsal finanal finNew South WalesLord Howe IslandGreat Barrier Reefspongeclean large pelagic fishesoviparoustunicatesbenthicinvertebratesdescribedGermanzoologisttype localityManadoSulawesispecific nameichthyologistherpetologistC. miliarisaquariumIUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesFroese, RainerFishBaseMuseums VictoriaEschmeyer, William N.Catalog of FishesCalifornia Academy of SciencesWikidataiNaturalistOpen Tree of Life