Triangular Butterflyfish
Chaetodon baronessa
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Acanthuriformes
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Genus
- Chaetodon
Where to Find
Found in 32 diving areas across 12 countries and 4 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 60 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 335 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 4 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 29 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 37 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 395 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 30 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 42 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 17 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 4 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 60 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 71 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 23 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 9 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 5 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 30 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 14 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 2 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Halmahera, Indonesia - 3 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 2 records
- Anilao, Philippines - 40 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 9 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 40 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 6 records
- Malapascua, Philippines - 8 records
- Siargao, Philippines - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 26 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 41 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 65 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 75 records