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Longnose Butterflyfish (Forcipiger longirostris)
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FISH FACTS |
Description
The Longnose Butterflyfish has yellow body with black spot on anal fin near the tail. The upper half of head and snout is black with black covering the whole eye The lower part of head and snout is silvery white. It has a longer snout than the similar Forcepsfish, F. flavissimus. The Forcepsfish has the black marking half way up the eye - not covering it like E. longirostris.
Other Names
Very-long-nose Butterflyfish
Size
to 22cm
Habitat
outer reef walls. Usually swim in pairs feeding around crevices in the coral
Food
small crustaceans, parts of echinoderms (starfish and the like), tentacles of bristle worms (polychaetes)
Range
coral reefs of the Indo-West and Central Pacific. In Australia it is found on the northern Great Barrier Reef.
Classification
| Class: | Actinopterygii | | Order: | Perciformes | | Family: | Chaetodontidae | | Genus: | Forcipiger | | Species: | longirostris | | Common Name: | Longnose Butterflyfish |
Relatives in same Genus
Forcepsfish (F. flavissimus)
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