Bluelashed butterflyfish

Chaetodon bennetti

Fish
IUCN: Data deficient

Usual depth4–24 m
Water temperature22–30 °C
Best monthsMarch, April, and October
How commonOccasional

Photo credit: (c) Susan Prior, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

About this species

The bluelashed butterflyfish, also known as the eclipse butterflyfish, archer butterflyfish or Bennett's butterflyfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish belonging to the family Chaetodontidae, It is found in the Indo-Pacific.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Bluelashed butterflyfish”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 117 records
February: 92 records
March: 124 records
April: 153 records
May: 123 records
June: 86 records
July: 95 records
August: 116 records
September: 110 records
October: 148 records
November: 119 records
December: 115 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 4–24 m · Deepest record: 53 m

0–10 m: 153 records
10–20 m: 92 records
20–30 m: 86 records
30–40 m: 2 records
40–50 m: 2 records
50–60 m: 2 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 22–30 °C

20–22 °C: 1 records
22–24 °C: 1 records
24–26 °C: 11 records
26–28 °C: 89 records
28–30 °C: 155 records

Photos

(c) Susan Prior, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Solomon Islands Fish ID Project, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Ben Hayden, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Ditch Townsend, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist
(c) Debra Baker, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Debra Baker, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
no rights reserved · CC0 1.0 · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Bluelashed butterflyfish, Archer Butterflyfish, Bennett's butterfly, Bennett's Butterflyfish, Bennett's Coralfish, bluelashed butterflyfish, Eclipse Butterflyfish

Names in 3 more languages

French: Chaetodon de Bennett, Chétodon de Bennett, Papillon de Bennett
Japanese: Umizukichochouo, Umizuki-chô-chô-uo, ウミヅキチョウチョウウオ
Simplified Chinese: 双丝蝴蝶鱼, 本氏蝴蝶魚, 本氏蝶, 雙絲蝴蝶魚

Other scientific names: Chaetodon benetti, Chaetodon binetti, Chaetodon vinctus

Similar species

Threadfin butterflyfish
Chaetodon auriga
Citron Butterfly
Chaetodon citrinellus
Blackblotch Butterflyfish
Chaetodon ephippium
Sunburst butterflyfish
Chaetodon kleinii
Raccoon butterflyfish
Chaetodon lunula
Oval Butterflyfish
Chaetodon lunulatus

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
875 open-data records from 1931 to 2021.
Species data updated October 26, 2026.

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