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title: "Fourspot Butterflyfish"
description: "Chaetodon quadrimaculatus — Vissen. The four-spotted butterflyfish or fourspot butterflyfish (Chaetodon quadrimaculatus) is a species of butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae) found in the Pacific Ocean from the Ryukyus, Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands and Taiwan to the Hawaiian, Marquesan, and Pitcairn islands, south to the Samoan and Austral Islands and the Marianas and Marshall Islands in Micronesia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/fourspot-butterflyfish
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Fourspot Butterflyfish

> Chaetodon quadrimaculatus — Vissen. The four-spotted butterflyfish or fourspot butterflyfish (Chaetodon quadrimaculatus) is a species of butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae) found in the Pacific Ocean from the Ryukyus, Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands and Taiwan to the Hawaiian, Marquesan, and Pitcairn islands, south to the Samoan and Austral Islands and the Marianas and Marshall Islands in Micronesia.

- Scientific name: *Chaetodon quadrimaculatus*
- Category: `fish` (Vissen)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 1593
- Wikidata: [Q1448088](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1448088)
- iNaturalist taxon: [97192](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/97192)

## Names

- en: Fourspot Butterflyfish
- de: Vierflecken-Falterfisch
- es: Pez mariposa de cuatro manchas
- fr: Poisson-papillon à quatre taches

## Countries with the most observations

US (1363), PF (88), CK (23), MP (16), UM (13), GU (11), AS (8), NU (8), TV (7), MH (3)

## Summary

The four-spotted butterflyfish or fourspot butterflyfish (Chaetodon quadrimaculatus) is a species of butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae) found in the Pacific Ocean from the Ryukyus, Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands and Taiwan to the Hawaiian, Marquesan, and Pitcairn islands, south to the Samoan and Austral Islands and the Marianas and Marshall Islands in Micronesia.
The fourspot butterflyfish is a marine coralivorous organism. Therefore, its noted geographic distribution, as well as population-level spatial distribution and temporal variation in density, is correlated to relative distributions and abundance of the corals…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourspot_butterflyfish

## Photo

![Fourspot Butterflyfish](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/fourspot-butterflyfish/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jesse Rorabaugh · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2714949

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/fourspot-butterflyfish?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).