Philippine butterflyfish
Amazing fact
The Philippine butterflyfish has a large black oval patch around its eye.
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The Philippine butterflyfish has a large black oval patch around its eye.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Philippine butterflyfish
- Scientific name
- Chaetodon adiergastos
- Japanese name
- クラカケチョウチョウウオ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Chaetodontiformes
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Genus
- Chaetodon
Where the name “Philippine butterflyfish” comes from
The scientific name "adiergastos" means "unfinished" in Greek.
Museums VictoriaAdults live on coral reefs in the western Pacific and usually move about in pairs or groups near soft corals.
Basic data
- Diet
- Corals, crabs, and other invertebrates
- Range
- Western Pacific
Where the Philippine 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
- クラカケチョウチョウウオ
- 简体中文
- 项斑蝴蝶鱼
- 繁體中文
- 烏頂蝴蝶魚
- 한국어
- 부전나비고기
- Español
- Pez Mariposa Filipino
- Français
- Papillon des Philippines
- Deutsch
- Panda-Falterfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-borboleta-das-Filipinas
- Italiano
- Pesce farfalla panda
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kepe-kepe panda
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá chim nàng
- Русский
- Филиппинская 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 — クラカケチョウチョウウオChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Philippine Butterflyfish, Chaetodon adiergastos Seale 1910Checked: 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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