Francesco Ricciardi

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Aquarium Fish: Butterflyfish

Aquarium Fish: Butterflyfish

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Very few groups of tropical marine fishes can boast such a multicolored body pattern like the butterflyfish. This marine family – scientific name Chaetodontidae, from the ancient Greek, it means “brush-teeth” – includes 114 different species belonging to 10 genera, of which the genus Chaetodon is the most abundant in terms of number of species.…