Sickle Butterflyfish
Chaetodon ulietensis
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 34 diving areas across 18 countries and 4 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 1 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 72 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 9 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 13 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 14 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 212 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 13 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 37 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 30 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 22 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 10 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 12 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 7 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 39 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 47 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 66 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 10 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 6 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 103 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 34 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 28 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 83 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 49 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 167 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 6 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 9 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 14 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 1 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 9 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 9 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 9 records