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butterfly fish

DEFINITIONS OF: butterfly fish

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n small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide

Types:
chaetodon
any fish of the genus Chaetodon
angelfish
a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus
Holocanthus tricolor, rock beauty
gold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil
Type of:
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
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