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Chaetodon ornatissimus
Frequently seen in pairs, these butterfly fish are beautiful to view. They are extremely shy. It feeds on the polyps of a variety of hard-coral species. When it bites at a coral colony, it can remove from 16 to 50 polyps in a single bite and may take up to three bites in the same region before moving on, this is a larger amount of polyps than most butterflyfish.
Spotted on Jun 1, 2014
Submitted on Mar 10, 2015
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