Banded Butterfly Fish

    
Size: 3 - 5 inches with a max of 6 inches. Depth: 10 to 60 feet.
Distinctive Features: 1. Two wide, black midbody bands. Juvenile
2. Black spot ringed in white on rear dorsal fin.
   
Description: Silver to white. Black bar on head runs across eye; blackish border on the rear of the body, base of rear dorsal and anal fins.
   
   
   
  Abundance & Distribution: Common to occasional for Florida, Caribbean; also noth to New Jersey, Bermuda, Gulf of Mexico and south to Brazil.
   
Habitat & Behavior: Flit about reef tops, usually swims in pairs.
   
   
Reaction to Divers: Tend to ignore divers, but moves away when approached. Often the best way to get in close is to wait quietly in a concealed position near their course of travel.
   
   
         
                 
Return to Index Page