Sunburst Butterflyfish
Chaetodon kleinii
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 60 diving areas across 30 countries and 5 regions.
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 150 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 8 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 8 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 173 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 4 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 1 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 12 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 3 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 46 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 120 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 188 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 18 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 7 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 21 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 32 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 20 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 5 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 33 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 1 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 12 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 15 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 7 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 29 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 20 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 4 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 3 records
- North Malé Atoll, Maldives - 4 records
- Rasdhoo Atoll, Maldives - 4 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- South Malé Atoll, Maldives - 4 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 7 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 4 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 12 records
- Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique - 10 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 6 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 13 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 7 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 208 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 13 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 15 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 82 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 3 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 4 records
- Anilao, Philippines - 85 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 19 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 41 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 3 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 40 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 12 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 29 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 243 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 274 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 7 records