Latticed Butterflyfish
Chaetodon rafflesii
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 16 countries and 4 regions.
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 119 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 8 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 249 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 1 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 4 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 18 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 80 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 105 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 10 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 4 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 6 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 36 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 76 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 91 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 48 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 16 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 37 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 21 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 56 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 3 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 5 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 39 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 11 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 1 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 1 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 1 records