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Saddleback Butterflyfish - Chaetodon ephippium This Saddleback Butterflyfish - Chaetodon ephippium is blue-gray with bleu lines on lower body; large white bordered black patch upper rear body; orange area from snout to ventral fins. Solitary or in pairs among coral-rich areas. Butterflyfish,Chaetodon ephippium,Fall,Fish,Geotagged,Malaysia,Sabah,Saddle Butterflyfish Click/tap to enlarge Country intro

Saddleback Butterflyfish - Chaetodon ephippium

This Saddleback Butterflyfish - Chaetodon ephippium is blue-gray with bleu lines on lower body; large white bordered black patch upper rear body; orange area from snout to ventral fins. Solitary or in pairs among coral-rich areas.

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The Saddle Butterflyfish

The Saddle Butterflyfish, ''Chaetodon ephippium'', is a species of butterflyfish . It is found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans from Sri Lanka and the Cocos-Keeling Islands to the Hawaiian, Marquesan and Tuamoto islands, north to southern Japan, south to Rowley Shoals and New South Wales in Australia.

It is a large butterflyfish, at up to 30 cm long together with the Lined Butterflyfish the giant among its genus. In shape it resembles certain angelfishes more than most of its relatives... more

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Similar species: Butterflyfishes, Angelfishes
Species identified by Albert Kang
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By Albert Kang

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Uploaded Nov 28, 2016. Captured Nov 14, 2016 07:26 in Malaysia.
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  • TG-4
  • f/4.5
  • 1/200s
  • ISO160
  • 8.99mm
Captured in the fall. More fall photos.