Lord Howe Island butterflyfish

Lord Howe Island butterflyfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Chaetodontidae
Genus: Amphichaetodon
Species: A. howensis
Binomial name
Amphichaetodon howensis
(Waite, 1903)

The Lord Howe Island butterflyfish (Amphichaetodon howensis) is a butterflyfish of the family Chaetodontidae, found along the east coast of Australia, around Lord Howe Island, and down the east coast of Northland in New Zealand, at depths of between 10 and 150 m. They are up to 20 cm long with black and yellow/white vertical stripes.

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