Citron Butterfly
Chaetodon citrinellus
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 51 diving areas across 24 countries and 5 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 4 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 4 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 358 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 2 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 64 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 73 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 77 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 8 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 343 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 22 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 20 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 122 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 25 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 2 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 46 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 9 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 32 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 9 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 67 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 14 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 70 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 108 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 16 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 60 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 423 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 6 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 18 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 270 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 95 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 115 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 8 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 41 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 71 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 6 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 2 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 3 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 5 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 5 records
- North Malé Atoll, Maldives - 5 records
- Rasdhoo Atoll, Maldives - 4 records
- South Malé Atoll, Maldives - 4 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 9 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 4 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 5 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 10 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 8 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 10 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 3 records