Mailed butterflyfish

[1] In Australia, it is found on the Great Barrier Reef with juveniles as far south as the Solitary Islands.[4] The mailed butterflyfish is a relatively common species of exposed seaward reefs, but it may also be found in sheltered lagoon areas, where there is a rich growth of corals and clear water.[2] These fish live at depths between 1 and 30 metres (3.3 and 98.4 ft) and are obligate corallivores that feed mainly on the species in the genus Acropora.[2] The mailed butterflyfish was first formally Species description in 1831 by the French anatomist Georges Cuvier, with the type locality given as Tahiti.[6][7] The mailed butterflyfish occasionally appears in the aquarium trade but its specialised diet means that captive specimens frequently starve to death.
Conservation statusData DeficientIUCN 3.1Scientific classificationEukaryotaAnimaliaChordataActinopterygiiAcanthuriformesChaetodontidaeChaetodonChaetodon (Citharoedus)Binomial nameG. CuvierSynonymsBroussonetLessonspeciesray-finned fishbutterflyfishfamilyPacific Oceanaquariumdorsal finanal fincaudal fintotal lengthTaiwanHawaiiMarquesas IslandsPitcairn IslandsRyukyu IslandsNew CaledoniaGreat Barrier ReefSolitary IslandsAcroporaSpecies descriptionFrenchanatomisttype localityTahitiornate butterflyfishscrawled butterflyfishMelon ButterflyfishIUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesFroese, RainerFishBaseEschmeyer, William N.Catalog of FishesCalifornia Academy of SciencesBibcodeWikidataWikispeciesiNaturalistObservation.orgOpen Tree of LifeZooBank