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Erik Schlogl, license: CC BY-NC 4.0, source: iNaturalist
Superclass:
Osteichthyes
Class:
Teleostei
Order:
Acanthuriformes
Family:
Chaetodontidae
Genus:
Forcipiger
Species:
flavissimus
Common:
Longnose butterfly fish
Climates:
Tropical
Temperate
Subtropical
Boreal
Waters:
Marine
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Regions:
Indian Ocean, Eastern
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Pacific, Eastern Central
Pacific, Northwest
Pacific, Southeast
Pacific, Southwest
Pacific, Western Central
Tricas, T. C., Boyle, K. S. 2014. Acoustic Behaviors in Hawaiian Coral Reef Fish Communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 511: 1-16.
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Species Identified
Sound Detected
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Passive Feeding
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Boyle, K. S. 2011. Proximate and Ultimate Aspects of Acoustic and Multimodal Communication in Butterflyfishes. PhD Dissertation, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Boyle, K. S., Tricas, T. C. 2011. Sound Production in the Longnose Butterflyfishes (Genus forcipiger): Cranial Kinematics, Muscle Activity and Honest Signals. Journal of Experimental Biology, 214(22): 3829-3842.
Tricas, T. C., Boyle, K. S. 2015. Diversity and Evolution of Sound Production in the Social Behavior of Chaetodon Butterflyfishes. Journal of Experimental Biology, 218(10): 1572-1584.
Boyle, K. S., Tricas, T. C. 2006. Sound Communication by the forceps Fish, forcipiger flavissimus (Chaetodontidae). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120(5): 3104-3104.
Boyle, K. S., Tricas, T. C. 2006. Acoustic Communication by Butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae) on Noisy Coral Reefs. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, Ocean Sciences Meeting Supplement, 87(36).