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Description
- 📏 up to 12 cm
- 🌊 lagoons, slopes
The dot-and-dash butterflyfish has an orange-yellow body covered with white dots and dashes. It lives in pairs on the corals and feeds on polyps.
Did you know?
In Tahitian: paraharaha.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Papillon à points-tirets.
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