Chelmon rostratus (Copperband butterflyfish)
Silvery white, three yellow/orange body bars and narrow orange eye bar, ocellated spot on the rear upper dorsal fin, long and thin beak-like snout. It lives solitary or in pairs.
Least concern on the IUCN Red list. It is one of the most captured fishes for the aquarium trade, but the global population seems to be stable.
Western Pacific: Andaman Sea to Ryukyu Islands and Australia. A common species found singly and in pairs along rocky shores and coral reefs; also in estuaries and silty inner reefs with often turbid water, down to a depth of 25 meters.
They are monogamous and oviparous breeders.
Up to 20cm.
It feeds on small crustaceans, annelids and coral polyps.
This species is also known by the common long-beaked coralfish. They are known to be territorial. This species can reach an age of 10 years old.
