Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Chaetodon auriga
mariposa de aleta ribeteada, Threadfin butterflyfish
Silver forebody; yellow rear body, including fins. Black bar through eye; diagonal black banding runs from forehead upward toward dorsal fin and on body toward anal fin. up to 18 cm
rocky, boulder strewn areas
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Acanthuriformes
Suborder
Percoidei
Family
Chaetodontidae
Genus
Chaetodon
Species
auriga
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Anisochaetodon auriga (Forsskål, 1775), Chaetodon auriga setifier (Bloch, 1795), Chaetodon lunaris Gronow, 1854, Chaetodon sebanus Cuvier, 1831, Chaetodon setifer Bloch, 1795, Linophora auriga (Forsskål, 1775), Pomacanthus filamentosus Lacepède, 1802, Pomacentrus setifer (Bloch, 1795), Sarothrodus auriga (Forsskål, 1775), Tetragonoptrus auriga (Forsskål, 1775), Tetragonoptrus setifer (Bloch, 1795), fide Appeltans et al. (2010)
Origin: Vagrant
Distribution: Red sea and tropical Indo-Pacific, including Hawaii and Ecuador in the Galapagos Islands.Costa Rica to Ecuador. Galápagos, Cocos, Clipperton and Malpelo
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Edgar, G.J. Fariña, J.M., Calvopiña, M., Martínez, C. & Banks, S. (2002) Comunidades submareales rocosas II: Peces y macroinvertebrados móviles. In: Danulat, E. & Edgar, G.J. (eds.) (2002): Reserva Marina de Galápagos. Línea Base de la Biodiversidad. Fundación Charles Darwin/Servicio Parque Nacional Galápagos, Santa Cruz, Galápagos, Ecuador, p. 68-97.
- Grove, J.S. Lavenberg, R.J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford California. 862 pp.
- Grove, J.S. Long, D.J., Robertson, D.R. & Victor, B.C. (2022) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 39, 14–22.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Humann, P. Deloach, N. (2003) Reef Fish Identification - Galapagos. New World Publication, Inc. Florida USA & Libri Mundi, Quito, Ecuador, 226 pp.
- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 Https://www.iucnredlist.org
- McCosker, J.E. Rosenblatt, R.H. (2010) The fishes of the Galápagos Archipelago: an update. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sc., Ser. 4, vol. 61, Suppl. II, no. 11: 167-195.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Chaetodon auriga", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=7742. Accessed 31 October 2026.