Black Butterflyfish
Chaetodon reticulatus
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: DD - Data Deficient - not enough data to assess extinction risk
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Acanthuriformes
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Genus
- Chaetodon
Where to Find
Found in 27 diving areas across 16 countries and 4 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 6 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 3 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 111 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 12 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 25 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 68 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 6 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 1 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 17 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 30 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 19 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 2 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 42 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 65 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 44 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 66 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 39 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 1394 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 4 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 66 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 28 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 53 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 9 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 6 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 2 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 4 records