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Tinker's Butterflyfish

Chaetodon tinkeri

Classification

The Hawaiian butterflyfish (Chaetodon tinkeri), also known as Tinker's butterflyfish, is a marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish belonging to the family Chaetodontidae of order Perciformes. It is found in the central Pacific Ocean. Description The Hawaiian (Tinkers) butterflyfish display the morphological features that are shared by all butterflyfish species including a compressed oval body shape with small eyes located above the longitudinal axis of the fish.

Distribution

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