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Crosshatch Butterflyfish
Chaetodon xanthurus
The pearlscale butterflyfish (Chaetodon xanthurus) is a species of butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae) also known as yellow-tailed butterflyfish or Philippines chevron butterflyfish (the chevron butterflyfish is an unrelated species of Chaetodon). It is found on or around the reefs of the central Indo-Pacific region from Indonesia and the Philippines north to the Ryukyu Islands.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 97212.