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Four-eyed Butterflyfish
Sep 10, Buddy's Reef, Bonaire.
They owe their name to the large black spot surrounded by a white ring on body below rear of dorsal fin. It seems to mimic a second eye which distracts predators as of where the real eyes are.
Also monogamous and mostly seen in pairs.
The Four-eyed Butterflyfish is a butterflyfish . It is alternatively called the Foureye Butterflyfish. This species is found in the Western Atlantic from Massachusetts, USA and Bermuda to the West Indies and northern South America.
''Chaetodon capistratus'' is the type species of ''Chaetodon''. If this genus is split up as some have proposed, it will retain its present name like its closest relatives, which include the Banded Butterflyfish and the Spot-finned Butterflyfish .
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