Black-back Butterflyfish
Chaetodon melannotus
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 56 diving areas across 31 countries and 6 regions.
- Coral Sea, Australia - 39 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 357 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 3 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 12 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 20 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 184 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 5 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 5 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 6 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 35 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 62 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 74 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 3 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 3 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 43 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 10 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 9 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 90 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 138 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 32 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 4 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 9 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 5 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 5 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 4 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 2 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 6 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 3 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 53 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 1 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 2 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 6 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 6 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 3 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 2 records
- Eilat, Israel - 1 records
- Mabul & Kapalai, Malaysia - 1 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 10 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 3 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 8 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 5 records
- Southern Islands, Singapore - 2 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 3 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 24 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 26 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 15 records