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title: "Ornate Butterflyfish"
description: "Chaetodon ornatissimus — Ryby. The ornate butterflyfish (Chaetodon ornatissimus), or clown butterflyfish is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish in the family Chaetodontidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/ornate-butterflyfish
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Ornate Butterflyfish

> Chaetodon ornatissimus — Ryby. The ornate butterflyfish (Chaetodon ornatissimus), or clown butterflyfish is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish in the family Chaetodontidae.

- Scientific name: *Chaetodon ornatissimus*
- Category: `fish` (Ryby)
- Habitats: `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże)
- iNaturalist observations: 2884
- Wikidata: [Q958450](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q958450)
- iNaturalist taxon: [52454](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/52454)

## Names

- en: Ornate Butterflyfish
- de: Orangestreifen-Falterfisch
- es: Pez mariposa adornado
- fr: Poisson-papillon orné

## Countries with the most observations

US (1466), ID (315), PF (298), PH (56), CX (45), GU (45), AU (42), PW (42), SB (37), MP (36), CK (33), JP (30)

## Summary

The ornate butterflyfish (Chaetodon ornatissimus), or clown butterflyfish is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish in the family Chaetodontidae.
The ornate butterflyfish is a close relative of the mailed butterflyfish (C. reticulatus) and the scrawled butterflyfish (C. meyeri). Together they make up the subgenus called "Citharoedus", but as this name had already been used for the mollusk genus when it was given to the fish, it is not valid. They are probably quite close to the subgenus Corallochaetodon, which contains the Melon Butterflyfish (C. trifasciatus). Like these, they might be separated into…

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

## Photo

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

Photo: TheMongrelKoi · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/45298578

## Machine access

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