Copperband butterflyfish
No sign-up needed. You can save notes on this device.
An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
Young copperband butterflyfish lack the long snout seen in adults.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Copperband butterflyfish
- Scientific name
- Chelmon rostratus
- Japanese name
- ハシナガチョウチョウウオ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Chaetodontiformes
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Genus
- Chelmon
A fish with a long, thin snout that lives from the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific.
How the Copperband butterflyfish lives
It usually lives alone and holds a territory. It uses its snout to take invertebrates hiding in reef cracks and holes. Adults form pairs during the breeding season. Eggs laid in open water drift as plankton out into the open sea.
Zoo ZürichTwo Oceans AquariumBasic data
- Range
- Indo-West Pacific
Where the Copperband 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
- ハシナガチョウチョウウオ
- 简体中文
- 钻嘴鱼
- 繁體中文
- 長吻管嘴魚
- Français
- Chelmon à bec médiocre
- Deutsch
- Kupferstreifen-Pinzettfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Borboleta-bicuda
- Italiano
- Pesce farfalla dal rostro
- العربية
- تقع ذو منقار
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Bagang
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá bướm dải đồng
- Русский
- Длиннорылая рыба-бабочка
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 — ハシナガチョウチョウウオChecked: 2026-11-04
- Georgia Aquarium — Copperband ButterflyfishChecked: 2026-11-07
- Two Oceans Aquarium — Copperband butterflyfishChecked: 2026-11-07
- Zoo Zürich — Copperband butterflyfishChecked: 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.
Report a mistakeRELATIVES
Others in Chaetodontidae
MORE TO MEET
