Maypole Butterflyfish
Chaetodon meyeri
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 30 diving areas across 22 countries and 4 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 25 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 25 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 50 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 3 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 6 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 33 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 38 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 4 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 4 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 2 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 9 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 2 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 6 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 6 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 4 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 174 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 11 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 2 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 24 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 6 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 3 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 3 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 31 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 38 records