Atoll Butterflyfish
Chaetodon mertensii
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 22 diving areas across 16 countries and 5 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 23 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 18 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 244 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 3 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 4 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 3 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 8 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 44 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 182 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 102 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 318 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 7 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 22 records
- Eilat, Israel - 1 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 3 records