Saddle butterflyfish

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Saddle butterflyfish

Adult
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Acanthuriformes
Family:	Chaetodontidae
Genus:	Chaetodon
Subgenus:	Chaetodon (Rabdophorus)
Species:	C. ephippium
Binomial name
*Chaetodon ephippium* G. Cuvier, 1831

Saddle butterflyfish range.^[2]
Synonyms^[3]
Rabdophorus rabdophorus ephippium (Cuvier, 1831) Chaetodon principalis Cuvier, 1829 Chaetodon garnoti Lesson, 1831 Chaetodon mulsanti Thiollière, 1857

The saddle butterflyfish (Chaetodon ephippium) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish belonging to the family Chaetodontidae. It is found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans from Sri Lanka and the Cocos-Keeling Islands to the Hawaiian, Marquesan and Tuamotu islands, north to southern Japan, south to Rowley Shoals and New South Wales in Australia.^[3]

It is a large butterflyfish, at up to 30 cm (nearly 12 in) long together with the Lined Butterflyfish (C. lineolatus) the giant among its genus. In shape it resembles certain angelfishes more than most of its relatives. The overall color is yellowish grey, with a large black spot bordered below by a broad white band on the back and wavy blue lines on the lower sides. The throat and the outline of the hind parts is bright yellow. Adults have a filament extending posteriorly from the upper part of the soft portion of the dorsal fin.^[3]

The Saddle Butterflyfish is found at depths between 0 and 30 m in coral reefs. It feeds on filamentous algae, small invertebrates, coral polyps, and fish eggs.^[3]

The saddle butterflyfish was first formally described in 1831 by the French anatomist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), the type locality was given as Bora Bora in the Society Islands, part of French Polynesia.^[4] It belongs to the large subgenus Rabdophorus which might warrant recognition as a distinct genus. In this group, it appears to represent a distinct lineage, with the dotted butterflyfish (C. semeion) perhaps the only somewhat closely related species. Next closest seems to be a group including the blackback butterflyfish (C. melannotus), spot-tailed butterflyfish (C. ocellicaudus) and yellow-dotted butterflyfish (C. selene), but these are already so distant that their ancestors must have diverged from the saddle butterflyfish's soon after the Rabdophorus lineage started to diversify.^[5]^[6]

References

^ Myers, R.F.; Pratchett, M. (2010). "Chaetodon ephippium". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T165681A6089748. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T165681A6089748.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
^ International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 2010. Chaetodon ephippium. In: IUCN 2015. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015.2. http://www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 19 July 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Chaetodon ephippium". FishBase. December 2019 version.
^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Chaetodon". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
^ Fessler, Jennifer L.; Westneat, Mark W (2007). "Molecular phylogenetics of the butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae): Taxonomy and biogeography of a global coral reef fish family". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 45 (1): 50–68. Bibcode:2007MolPE..45...50F. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.05.018. PMID 17625921.
^ Hsu, Kui-Ching; Chen, Jeng-Ping & Shao, Kwang-Tsao (2007). "Molecular phylogeny of Chaetodon (Teleostei: Chaetodontidae) in the Indo-West Pacific: evolution in geminate species pairs and species groups" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement. 14: 77–86. Archived 2007-08-11 at the Wayback Machine

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Taxon identifiers
Chaetodon ephippium	Wikidata: Q2697531 Wikispecies: Chaetodon ephippium ADW: Chaetodon_ephippium AFD: Chaetodon_ephippium BOLD: 47216 CoL: TBWL FishBase: 5562 GBIF: 2385324 iNaturalist: 97157 IRMNG: 10157998 ITIS: 169567 IUCN: 165681 NCBI: 109689 Observation.org: 264678 OBIS: 273335 Open Tree of Life: 429661 WoRMS: 273335

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