Chaetodontidae

Chaetodon adiergastos

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chaetodontiformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Eupercaria Ordo: Chaetodontiformes

Familia: Chaetodontidae
Genera (12):
Amphichaetodon – Chaetodon – Chelmon – Chelmonops – Coradion – Forcipiger – Hemitaurichthys – Heniochus – Johnrandallia – Parachaetodon – Prognathodes – Roa

Name

• Chaetodontidae Rafinesque, 1815

References

• Rafinesque, C.S. 1815. Analyse de la nature, ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Palerme: L'Imprimerie de Jean Barravecchia. 224 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Zuo, X.-Y. & W.-Q. Tang, 2011: Taxonomic revision of butterflyfishes family Chaetodontidae in China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 36 (4): 1000–1005. (in Chinese, abstract in English) PDF

Links

• Chaetodontidae  and its species in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Genera of Chaetodontidae (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

Vernacular names

Afrikaans: Vlindervisse
čeština: Klipkovití
Deutsch: Falterfische
English: Butterflyfishes
suomi: Perhokalat
magyar: Sörtefogúfélék
Bahasa Indonesia: Kepe-kepe
日本語: チョウチョウウオ科
lietuvių: Šeriadantinės
Nederlands: Koraalvlinders
norsk: Skjellfinnefisker
svenska: Fjärilsfiskar
ไทย: ปลาผีเสื้อ, ปลาโนรี
Tagalog: Paruparong-dagat, Kulibangbang

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