Amphichaetodon

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Kingdom Animalia Scientific name Amphichaetodon Higher classification Butterflyfish Order Perciformes		Family Chaetodontidae Phylum Chordata Rank Genus

Similar Lord Howe Island but, Butterflyfish, Coradion, Hemitaurichthys, Prognathodes

Amphichaetodon is a genus of fish in the family Chaetodontidae, the butterflyfishes. They are native to the southern Pacific Ocean.

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus:

Amphichaetodon howensis (Waite, 1903) – Lord Howe Island butterflyfish

Amphichaetodon melbae W. E. Burgess & D. K. Caldwell, 1978 – narrow-barred butterflyfish

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