Exquisite Butterflyfish
Chaetodon austriacus
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 830
- Most observed in
- 🇪🇬 Egypt
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The blacktail butterflyfish (Chaetodon austriacus), also known as black-tailed butterflyfish or exquisite butterflyfish, is a species marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish belonging to the family Chaetodontidae. It is native to the western Indian Ocean but has reached the Mediterranean Sea as a Lessepsian migrant through the Suez Canal.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Blacktail butterflyfish”.