Biology:Narrow-barred butterflyfish
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Short description: Species of fish
| Narrow-barred butterflyfish | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Chaetodontidae |
| Genus: | Amphichaetodon |
| Species: | A. melbae
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| Binomial name | |
| Amphichaetodon melbae W. E. Burgess & D. K. Caldwell, 1978
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The narrow-banded butterflyfish (Amphichaetodon melbae) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish from the family Chaetodontidae. It is found in the eastern Pacific Ocean around Easter Island, the Desventuradas Islands and the Juan Fernández Islands/[2] The biology of this fish is little understood but it is thought to be strongly associated with rocky reefs.[1] The name of the person honoured in the specific name was not defined but it is considered to, almost certainly, be D.K. Cladwell's wife, the marine mammologist Melba Caldwell of the University of Florida in Gainesville.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pyle, R. (2010). "Amphichaetodon melbae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T165727A6102970. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T165727A6102970.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/165727/6102970. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Amphichaetodon melbae" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
- ↑ "Order ACANTHURIFORMES (part 1): Families LOBOTIDAE, POMACANTHIDAE, DREPANEIDAE and CHAETODONTIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. 21 July 2020. http://www.etyfish.org/acanthuriformes1/. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
Wikidata ☰ Q1823184 entry
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