A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Chaetodontidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Hemitaurichthys polylepis (Bleeker, 1857) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| brown-and-white butterflyfishHemitaurichthys zoster (Bennett, 1831) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| pennant coralfishHeniochus acuminatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heniochus chrysostomus Cuvier, 1831 | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| PennantfishHeniochus diphreutes Jordan, 1903 | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Red Sea bannerfishHeniochus intermedius Steindachner, 1893 | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heniochus pleurotaenia Ahl, 1923 | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heniochus singularius Smith & Radcliffe, 1911 | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heniochus varius (Cuvier, 1829) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| barberfishJohnrandallia nigrirostris (Gill, 1862) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Parachaetodon ocellatus (Cuvier, 1831) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| longsnout butterflyfishPrognathodes aculeatus (Poey, 1860) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| bank butterflyfishPrognathodes aya (Jordan, 1886) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Prognathodes basabei Pyle & Kosaki, 2016 | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Prognathodes brasiliensis Burgess, 2001 | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Prognathodes dichrous (Günther, 1869) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| scythe butterflyfishPrognathodes falcifer (Hubbs & Rechnitzer, 1958) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Prognathodes guezei (Maugé & Bauchot, 1976) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Guyana butterflyfishPrognathodes guyanensis (Durand, 1960) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Prognathodes guyotensis (Yamamoto & Tameka, 1982) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Prognathodes marcellae (Poll, 1950) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Prognathodes obliquus (Lubbock & Edwards, 1980) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Roa australis Kuiter, 2004 | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Roa excelsa (Jordan, 1921) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Roa jayakari (Norman, 1939) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Roa modesta (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Roa rumsfeldi Rocha, Pinheiro, Wandell, Rocha & Shepherd, 2017 | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Roa uejoi Matsunuma & Motomura, 2022 | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.