Clown Butterflyfish
Chaetodon ornatissimus
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 38 diving areas across 20 countries and 4 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 32 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 32 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 190 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 14 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 6 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 5 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 32 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 8 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 11 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 125 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 5 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 58 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 2 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 1 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 8 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 31 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 87 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 101 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 6 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 4 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 359 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 40 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 33 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 10 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 3 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 13 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 3 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 9 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 5 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 1 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 6 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 9 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 5 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 16 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 17 records