Scientific Name	Chaetodon meyeri   Pronounce			by: Lab of Fish Ecol. and Evo., BRCAS
Author	Bloch & Schneider, 1801	Depth	2 - 25M
Chinese	麥氏蝴蝶魚	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	蝴蝶魚科	Economic Fish	No
Family	F393　Chaetodontidae	Edible Fish	No	Chinese In Mainland China	麥氏蝴蝶魚
Max Length	18 cm	Aquarium Fish	Yes	Common Name	黑斜紋蝶、紅司公(澎湖)、米統仔(澎湖)
Distribution in World	India Ocean to Pacific Ocean	Distribution in Taiwan	South
Habitats	Coral、Coastal、Lagoon	Holotype Locality	Moluccas
Synonyms	Holacanthus flavoniger
Reference	臺灣魚類誌(沈等, 1993)  沈世傑 編 Shih-Chieh Shen ed. 1993
Specimen List	NTUM02703.
Common Name	Scrawled butterflyfish; Maypole butterflyfish; Meyer's coralfish; Meyer's butterfly; Meyer's butterflyfish
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	Body oval, deep, strongly compressed. Head length about equal to head height; preopercle smooth, without prominent spines. Snout short. Small protractile mouth with brush-like teeth in the jaws. Dorsal fin with XII spines, no notch between spinous and soft dorsal fin; and 23 or 24 soft rays; anal fin with III spines and 18 to 20 soft rays; pectoral fins transparent with 16 soft rays; pelvic fins with I stout spine and 5 branched rays; caudal fin rounded. Body is whitish or blue-white with curved to oblique black bands on the sides; yellow-edged black bars runs through the eye, on the snout and across operculum; median fins yellowish with black submarginal bands.
habitats	Occur in coral rich areas of clear lagoon and seaward reefs at depths of 5 to 25 m., and feed exclusively on coral polyps. Juvenile usually solitary among branching corals, adults usually paired and home-ranging. Oviparous.
Distribution	Widely distributed in Indo-Pacific from East Africa to the Line Islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to the Great Barrier Reef; Palau to the eastern Carolines and southern Marshalls in Micronesia. Eastern Pacific: Galapagos Islands. It is very rare
Utility	Marine aquarium fish.