Redfin Butterflyfish
Chaetodon lunulatus
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 35 diving areas across 18 countries and 5 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 1 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 6 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 47 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 59 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 61 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 7 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 38 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 69 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 7 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 10 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 42 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 33 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 64 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 81 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 143 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 30 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 61 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 382 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 135 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 103 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 298 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 226 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 239 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 17 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 30 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 73 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 2 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 1 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 11 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 19 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 28 records