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Chaetodontidae

[‚kēd·ō′dän·tə‚dē]
(vertebrate zoology)
The butterflyfishes, a family of perciform fishes in the suborder Percoidei.
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Chaetodontidae

 

a family of fishes of the order Perciformes. The tall, laterally compressed body usually reaches a length of 25 cm. The coloration is a bright mottling. The fishes are solitary. They are not good long-distance swimmers but when pursued by predators easily find a hiding place in the cavities or crevices of reefs. The fishes inhabit shallows of the world ocean and are most numerous in the tropics, where they invariably appear around coral reefs. There are about 150 species. Best known are the butterfly fishes and angelfishes (the latter are often assigned to the separate family Pomacanthidae).

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Zhizn’ zhivotnykh, vol. 4, part 1. Moscow, 1971.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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