Sunburst butterflyfish
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Young sunburst butterflyfish also live around the Koshiki Islands in Kagoshima.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Sunburst butterflyfish
- Scientific name
- Chaetodon kleinii
- Japanese name
- ミゾレチョウチョウウオ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Chaetodontiformes
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Genus
- Chaetodon
A fish found from the Izu Islands, the Pacific coast between Chiba and Kyushu, and the Ryukyu Islands to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Basic data
- Range
- Izu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Sunburst 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
- ミゾレチョウチョウウオ
- 简体中文
- 克氏蝴蝶鱼
- 繁體中文
- 克氏蝴蝶魚
- Español
- Pez mariposa de Klein
- Français
- Papillon jaune
- Deutsch
- Kleins Falterfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-borboleta-sol
- Italiano
- Pesce farfalla di Klein
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kepe-kepe cokelat
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá bướm nâu nhạt
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 — ミゾレチョウチョウウオChecked: 2026-11-04
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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