Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Chaetodon kleinii
mariposa de barra penumbre, Duskybarred butterflyfish
Whitish forebody; yellow-brown rear with horizontal rows of small dusky brown spots. Dorsal, anal and tail fins yellow. up to 13 cm
usually found in depths greater than 10m
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Acanthuriformes
Suborder
Percoidei
Family
Chaetodontidae
Genus
Chaetodon
Species
kleinii
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Anisochaetodon kleinii (Bloch, 1790), Chaetodon bellulus Thiollière, 1857, Chaetodon cingulatus Fowler, 1934, Chaetodon corallicola Snyder, 1904, Chaetodon flavescens Bennett, 1831, Chaetodon melammystax Bloch & Schneider, 1801, Chaetodon melastomus Bloch & Schneider, 1801, Chaetodon virescens Cuvier, 1831, Tetragonoptrus kleini (Bloch, 1790), fide Appeltans et al. (2010)
Origin: Vagrant
Distribution: Tropical Indo-Pacific including Hawaii, Philippines and Ecuador in Galapagos Islands Costa Rica to Ecuador. Cocos, Clipperton and Malpelo Islands
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- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Chaetodon kleinii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=7744. Accessed 16 June 2025.