Butterfly fish with tear of the Indian Ocean

Poisson-papillon with tear of the Indian Ocean ( Chaetodon interruptus ) is a Espèce of Poisson S of the family of the Chaetodontidae.

Sub-genus

The butterfly fish with tear of the Indian Ocean is a butterfly fish which belongs to the sub-genus Lepidochaetodon . In 1984, André Maugé and Roland Bauchot proposed to assign this species to their new kind Heterochaetodon , which would give like scientific name for this fish Heterochaetodon interruptus .

This species was confused a long time with the close species, the Poisson-papillon with tear of the Pacific.

Morphology

  • Size: up to 20 cm.

Its coloring is yellow with a vertical band black, narrow, passing by the eye, and a black task in the middle of the body (upwards), spot which can make think of a drop turned over water or a tear.

Biology and ecology

It is a fish which one can meet at a shallow depth, but also more deeply.

Distribution

The butterfly fish tear of the Indian Ocean meets in the Indian Ocean, as its name indicates it.

External bonds

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