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title: "Mirror Butterflyfish"
description: "Chaetodon speculum — Peixes. The mirror butterflyfish or oval-spot butterflyfish (Chaetodon speculum) is a species of butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae)."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/mirror-butterflyfish
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Mirror Butterflyfish

> Chaetodon speculum — Peixes. The mirror butterflyfish or oval-spot butterflyfish (Chaetodon speculum) is a species of butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae).

- Scientific name: *Chaetodon speculum*
- Category: `fish` (Peixes)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 1522
- Wikidata: [Q3087269](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3087269)
- iNaturalist taxon: [97201](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/97201)

## Names

- en: Mirror Butterflyfish
- de: Einfleck-Falterfisch
- es: Pez Mariposa Lunareja
- fr: Poisson-papillon à miroir

## Countries with the most observations

ID (448), NC (238), TW (137), HK (125), AU (116), PH (94), NF (49), MY (20), PW (14), SB (12), JP (10), VU (8)

## Summary

The mirror butterflyfish or oval-spot butterflyfish (Chaetodon speculum) is a species of butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae). It is found in the Indo-Pacific region from Indonesia to Japan and south to the Great Barrier Reef and Papua New Guinea. The species has also been reported from Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion.
It grows to a maximum of 18 cm (7 in) in length. There are 14 spines and 17-18 soft rays in the dorsal fin and 3 spines and 15-16 soft rays in the anal fin. The body color is a bright to orange-yellow with a big black blotch below the dorsal fin and a vertical black bar running through the eye.
The…

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Светлана Царахова · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/369388440

## Machine access

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