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Bluelashed Butterflyfish

Chaetodon bennetti

Bislamabataflaefis— names this kind of animal, not this species alone

Bluelashed Butterflyfish — photo 1 of 4
Photo 1 of 4 · Bernard E. Picton BernardP · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
uncommonblackblueyelloweyespotlinedsmallreef
Habitat
Reef
Max size
20 cm
Depth
0-50 m
Family
Chaetodontidae

The bluelashed butterflyfish, also known as the eclipse butterflyfish, archer butterflyfish or Bennett's butterflyfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish belonging to the family Chaetodontidae, It is found in the Indo-Pacific.

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Easily confused with

Side by side, with what tells them apart.

Bluelashed Butterflyfish
This oneBluelashed Butterflyfish
Mirror Butterflyfish
Look-alikeMirror Butterflyfish

Both are yellow with a single large black spot below the dorsal fin. Bluelashed Butterflyfish's spot is ringed in blue, its eyestripe is edged with two blue lines, and two curved blue lines run above the belly. Mirror Butterflyfish has no blue anywhere: a plain black blotch and a plain black eye bar.

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