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Spotfin Butterflyfish
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Spotfin Butterflyfish

Chaetodon ocellatus

The spotfin butterflyfish (Chaetodon ocellatus) is a butterflyfish found in the western Atlantic Ocean, in the Gulf of Mexico and most commonly found in the Caribbean Sea.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49273.