Butterfly fish
Chaetodon vagabundus
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 66 diving areas across 33 countries and 6 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 2 records
- Great Barrier Reef, Australia - 353 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 19 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 53 records
- Prony Bay, New Caledonia - 59 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 5 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 225 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 4 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 6 records
- Moorea & Tahiti, French Polynesia - 88 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 7 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 12 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 16 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 3 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 49 records
- Niue West Coast, Niue - 3 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 130 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 178 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 27 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 16 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 79 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 359 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 100 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 80 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 105 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 43 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 233 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 9 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 37 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 64 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 6 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 5 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 4 records
- Jeju Island, South Korea - 1 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 5 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 5 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 13 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 2 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 16 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 12 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 9 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 2 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 2 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 6 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 1 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 2 records
- Sipadan, Malaysia - 2 records
- Anilao, Philippines - 37 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 11 records
- Bohol, Philippines - 26 records
- Donsol & Sorsogon, Philippines - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 21 records
- Siargao, Philippines - 4 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 63 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 11 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 1 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 42 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 57 records