Eightband butterflyfish
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Young eightband butterflyfish often shelter among branching Acropora corals.
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Young eightband butterflyfish often shelter among branching Acropora corals.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Eightband butterflyfish
- Scientific name
- Chaetodon octofasciatus
- Japanese name
- ヤスジチョウチョウウオ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Chaetodontiformes
- Family
- Chaetodontidae
- Genus
- Chaetodon
A fish found from south of Kochi Prefecture to the eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific.
How the Eightband butterflyfish lives
It is often found in turbid, silty water. It is usually seen in pairs.
Museums Victoria and OzFishNetNational Parks BoardBasic data
- Diet
- Polyps
- Range
- South of Kochi Prefecture, eastern Indian Ocean to western Pacific, excluding Micronesia
- Conservation status in Japan
- Data Deficient (DD)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)
Where the Eightband 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
- ヤスジチョウチョウウオ
- 简体中文
- 八带蝴蝶鱼
- 繁體中文
- 八帶蝴蝶魚
- Español
- Pez mariposa de ocho franjas
- Français
- Poisson-papillon à huit bandes
- Deutsch
- Achtbinden-Falterfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-borboleta-de-oito-listras
- Italiano
- Pesce farfalla a otto bande
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Ikan kepe-kepe
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá bướm tám vạch
- Русский
- Восьмиполосая 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 — ヤスジチョウチョウウオChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria and OzFishNet — Eightband Butterflyfish, Chaetodon octofasciatusChecked: 2026-11-07
- National Parks Board — Chaetodon octofasciatusChecked: 2026-11-07
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)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.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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