Dot and dash Butterflyfish

About this species

The spot-banded butterflyfish or spotband butterflyfish is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish belonging to the family Chaetodontidae. It is from the western Pacific Ocean.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Spotband 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: 38 records
February: 62 records
March: 279 records
April: 796 records
May: 457 records
June: 315 records
July: 67 records
August: 186 records
September: 226 records
October: 107 records
November: 48 records
December: 54 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 11–24 m · Deepest record: 1,628 m

0–10 m: 130 records
10–20 m: 1,101 records
20–30 m: 813 records
30–40 m: 2 records
40–50 m: 1 records
50–60 m: 4 records
60–70 m: 0 records
70–80 m: 0 records
80–90 m: 0 records
90–100 m: 0 records
100–110 m: 0 records
110+ m: 1 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 26–29 °C

24–26 °C: 1 records
26–28 °C: 123 records
28–30 °C: 652 records

Photos

(c) Ioannis Magouras, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Bernard DUPONT, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Micha Baum, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist
(c) Georgina Jones, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist
(c) Ben Costamagna, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Piotr Lukasik, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Ro Hill, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Dot and dash Butterflyfish, Sevenband Butterflyfish, Spotband butterflyfish, Spot band Butterflyfish, Spot banded Butterflyfish, Spot-banded Butterflyfish, Spots-and-bands Coralfish, Spotted Belly Butterflyfish

Names in 3 more languages

French: Papillon à bandes ponctuées, Poisson-papillon à bande ponctuée
Japanese: Shichisenchochouo, Shichisen-chôchô-uo, シチセンチョウチョウウオ
Simplified Chinese: 斑带蝴蝶鱼, 斑帶蝴蝶魚, 繁紋蝶, 虎皮蝶, 點斑橫帶蝴蝶魚

Other scientific names: Chaetodon punctato-fasciatus, Chaetodon punctatolineatus, Chaetodon punctofasciatus

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).
2,374 open-data records from 1901 to 2018.
Species data updated October 26, 2026.