Dot and dash Butterflyfish
Chaetodon pelewensis
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 26 diving areas across 13 countries and 2 regions.
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 252 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 30 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 27 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 39 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 5 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 749 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 22 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 42 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 73 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 8 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 1 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 11 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 31 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 5 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 2 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 805 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 17 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 6 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 429 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 166 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 183 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 2 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 10 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 22 records