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Also Known As	Chaetodontidae • butterfly fish

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Butterfly fish (Chaetodon)

copperband butterflyfish

Startle markings of the four-eye butterfly fish (Chaetodon capistratus).

Behaviors of butterflyfish and squirrelfish

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