Latticed butterflyfish
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The latticed butterflyfish has a black band running through its eye.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Latticed butterflyfish
- Scientific name
- Chaetodon rafflesii
- Japanese name
- アミチョウチョウウオ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Chaetodontiformes
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Genus
- Chaetodon
A fish of rocky and coral reefs from near the mouth of Ise Bay to the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan and the eastern Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Latticed butterflyfish lives
It is often seen in pairs or alone.
Australian MuseumBasic data
- Diet
- Coral polyps, small bottom-dwelling animals, algae, and other foods
- Range
- Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, eastern Indian Ocean to Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Latticed butterflyfish has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- アミチョウチョウウオ
- 简体中文
- 雷氏蝴蝶鱼
- 繁體中文
- 雷氏蝴蝶魚
- Español
- Pez Mariposa de Raffles
- Français
- Poisson-papillon quadrillé
- Deutsch
- Großschupppen Falterfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-borboleta-rendilhado
- Italiano
- Pesce farfalla traliccio
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kepe-kepe nanas
- Русский
- Бабочка Раффлеза
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — アミチョウチョウウオChecked: 2026-11-04
- Australian Museum — Lattice Butterflyfish, Chaetodon rafflesii (Bennett, 1830)Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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