Mirror butterflyfish
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The mirror butterflyfish eats the polyps of Acropora corals.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Mirror butterflyfish
- Scientific name
- Chaetodon speculum
- Japanese name
- トノサマダイ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Chaetodontiformes
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Genus
- Chaetodon
A fish that lives from the islands and coasts of southern Japan across the eastern Indian Ocean and the western Pacific.
How the Mirror butterflyfish lives
From summer onward, young fish are often seen among branching Acropora corals in shallow water. It does not form schools and often moves about alone or in pairs.
宇久井ビジターセンター沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, eastern Indian Ocean to western Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Mirror 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
- トノサマダイ
- 简体中文
- 镜斑蝴蝶鱼
- 繁體中文
- 鏡斑蝴蝶魚
- 한국어
- 흑점나비고기
- Español
- Pez Mariposa Lunareja
- Français
- Poisson-papillon à tache ovale
- Deutsch
- Einfleck-Falterfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-borboleta-eclipse
- Italiano
- Pesce farfalla specchio
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kepe-kepe bulan biasa
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 — トノサマダイChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — トノサマダイChecked: 2026-11-07
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — トノサマダイ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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