Black-backed Butterflyfish
Chaetodon melannotus
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,862
- Most observed in
- 🇮🇩 Indonesia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The black-backed butterflyfish or blackback butterflyfish (Chaetodon melannotus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the butterflyfish family Chaetodontidae. It is widespread through the Indo-Pacific, ranging from the Red Sea and East Africa to southern Japan, Micronesia and Samoa.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Blackback butterflyfish”.