Acropora Butterfly
Chaetodon trifascialis
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: NT - Near Threatened - close to qualifying for a threatened category in the near future
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Acanthuriformes
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Genus
- Chaetodon
Where to Find
Found in 62 diving areas across 34 countries and 5 regions.
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 312 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 12 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 26 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 42 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 33 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 162 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 9 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 14 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 20 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 8 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 2 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 6 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 8 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 16 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 3 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 51 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 8 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 101 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 141 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 10 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 2 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 57 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 501 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 16 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 13 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 123 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 63 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 15 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 19 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 7 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 15 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 3 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 4 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 2 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 6 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 2 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- North Malé Atoll, Maldives - 5 records
- Rasdhoo Atoll, Maldives - 4 records
- South Malé Atoll, Maldives - 4 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 6 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 4 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 5 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 19 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 1 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 11 records
- Kalpitiya & Northwest, Sri Lanka - 6 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 6 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 3 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 1 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 27 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 1 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 50 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 65 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 12 records