Chelmon rostratus

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

48636). May be found at depths of 1 to 25 meters.

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -6,000 meters (0 to -19,685 feet).[2]

Ecology: This species inhabits coastal and inner reefs, often in turbid water. It occurs either singly or in pairs. The elongated snout is adapted for feeding on benthic invertebrates from small crevices (G.R. Allen pers. comm. 2006).[3].

List of Habitats :

•     9     Marine Neritic   
  
•     9.2     Marine Neritic - Subtidal Rock and Rocky Reefs   
  
•     9.5     Marine Neritic - Subtidal Sandy-Mud   
  
•     9.8     Marine Neritic - Coral Reef   
  
•     9.8.2     Back Slope   
  
•     9.8.4     Lagoon   
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Biology

Migration

Non-migratory.

Behavior

Territorial species[4].

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Chaelmo rostratus • Chaelmo rostratus (Linnaeus • Chaelmo rostratus (Linnaeus, 1758) • Chaetodon enceladus • Chaetodon enceladus Shaw • Chaetodon rostratus • Chaetodon rostratus Linnaeus • Chaetodon rostratus Linnaeus, 1758 • Chelmo rostratus • Chelmo rostratus (Linnaeus • Chelmo rostratus (Linnaeus, 1758) • Chelmo rostratus Valenciennes • Chelmo rostratus Valenciennes, 1839 • Chelmon lol • Chelmon lol Thiollière • Chelmon rostratus • Chelmon rostratus marginalis (Non Richardson

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 12-Aug-1994

Similar Species

Members of the genus Chelmon

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. aculeatus (Caribbean Longsnout Butterflyfish) · C. marginalis (Western Beaked Butterflyfish) · C. muelleri (Müller's Coralfish) · C. rostratus (Beaked Or Copper-Banded Butterflyfish)

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Further Reading

• An introduction to the natural history of fishes: being the article "Ichthyology, " from. .. the Encyclopædia Britannica / by James Wilson. 1838 Edinburgh, etc.: Adam and Charles Black, [et al.]1838. url p. 178.
• Animal intelligence / By George J. Romanes. New York: D. Appleton, 1888. url p. 248.
• Animal intelligence / by George J. Romanes. London: K. Paul, Trench, 1882. url p. 503.
• Animal intelligence. By George J. Romanes. .. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1883. url p. 248.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 46.
• Check list of the fishes and fish-like animals of New South Wales. SydneyRoyal Zoological Society of New South Wales1922 url , p. 65.
• Check-list of species of fishes known from the PhilippineArchipelago, by David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1910. url p. 41.
• Check-list of the species of fishes known from the Philippine Archipelago, Manila, Bureau of printing, 1910. url p. 41.
• Cuvier's animal kingdom: arranged according to its organization / translated from the French, and abridged for the use of students by H. McMurtrie. London: Orr and Smith, 1840. url p. 298.
• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 682.
• Discoveries in Australia; with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H. M. S. Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. Also, a narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's visits to the islan London: T. and W. Boone, 1846. url p. 491.
• English cyclopaedia, a new dictionary of universal knowledge, conducted by Charles Knight. London, Bradbury, 1854-61. url .
• Fishery circular / U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries. [Washington]: The Bureau, 1931-1939. url p. 398.
• From Ocean to Aquarium: the global trade in marine ornamental species. UNEP-WCMC Biodiversity Series 17 UNEP-WCMC url p. 7.
• Handbook of zoology / by J. van der Hoeven. Cambridge: University Press, 1856-1858. url p. 170.
• Handbook of zoology; by J. van der Hoeven. Tr. from the 2d Dutch ed. by the Rev. William Clark. Cambridge: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1856-58. url p. 170.
• Ichthyology. London: s.n., 1856 url p. 301.
• Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art. systematically arranged by J.G. Heck. Translated from the German, with additions, and edited by Spencer F. Baird. .. illustrated by five hundred steel plates, containing upwards to twelve thousand en New York, R. Garrigue, 1851. url p. 228, p. 3.
• Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. Brisbane, Queensland Museum, 1912- url p. 44.
• Mental evolution in animals, By George John Romanes; with a posthumous essay on instinct; by Charles Darwin. New York: D. Appleton, 1884. url p. 388, p. 89.
• Mental evolution in animals. With a posthumous essay on instinct, New YorkD. Appleton1884 url p. 388.
• Natural history: Fishes / by P. H. Gosse. London: Printed for the Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1851. url p. 108.
• Outlines of general zoology. New York [N.Y.]: Rudolph Garrigue, 1851. url , p. 228.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 47.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 56.
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• The Popular educator: a complete encyclopaedia of elementary, advanced and technical education. London, Cassell[1888] url p. 104.
• The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. .. by Dr. Max Weber. .. and Dr. L.F. de Beaufort. Leiden, E.J. Brill, Ltd., 1911- url p. 115, p. 120, p. 126.
• The living world: containing descriptions of the several races of men, and all species of animals, birds, fishes, insects, etc., etc.: with numerous anecdotes, illustrative of their instincts, reasoning powers and dom by Augustus C.L. Arnold; assisted by Edward A. Samuels. Boston: Samuel Walker & Co., 1868-1870, c1868. url p. 149.
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• The new natural history. New York, Merrill, c1901. url p. 2711.
• The royal natural history / edited by Richard Lydekker; with preface by P.L. Sclater; illustrated with seventy-two coloured plates and sixteen hundred engravings by W. Kuhnert. .. [et al.]. London: F. Warne, 1893-1896. url p. 344.
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Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• FishBase 2006.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 10, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Myers, R. & Pratchett, M. 2010. Chelmon rostratus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 09, 2007:

• FishBase, FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, AIMS - Baited Remote Underwater Video Station
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, MCZ Fish Collection
• National Chemical Laboratory, IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
• OZCAM
• Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Royal Ontario Museum, Fish specimens
• Senckenberg, Collection Pisces

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 123653
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-25650
• Fishbase Species ID: 5483
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14172224
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 169684
• IUCN ID: 199531
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 106737

Footnotes

1. Lieske, E. and R. Myers (1994). Collins Pocket Guide. Coral reef fishes. Indo-Pacific & Caribbean including the Red Sea. Haper Collins Publishers, 400 p. [back]
2. Mean = -1,583.450 meters (-5,195.046 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,455.630 based on 1,085 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
3. Myers, R. & Pratchett, M. 2010. Chelmon rostratus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]
4. Kuiter, R. H. and Tonozuka (2001). Pictorial guide to Indonesian reef fishes. Part 2. Fusiliers - Dragonets, Caesionidar - Callionymidae. Zoonetics, Australia. 304-622 p. [back]

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