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Raccoon Butterflyfish

Chaetodon lunula

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Description:

The face of this fish, with its masked eyes and white curved bar resemble that of a Raccoon. The body is orange-yellow with diagonal brown stripes that darkens to brown on the upper side. A broad dark bar bordered in yellow runs diagonally back behind the white bar, and there is a dark spot at the base of the tail.

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PublishedJuly 21, 2014

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