Description

Dorsal spines (total): 12; Dorsal soft rays (total): 25 - 27; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 20 - 21.

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Acanthuriformes

Family: Chaetodontidae

Genus: Hemitaurichthys

Species: Hemitaurichthys thompsoni Fowler, 1923

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Found in coral reefs (Ref. 43239). Occur in schools above steep outer reef slopes at depths below 10 m to 300 m and sometimes above clear lagoon reefs at depths as shallow as 4 m. Uncommon (Ref. 9710). Benthopelagic (Ref. 58302). Feeds on zooplanktons (Ref. 89972). Oviparous (Ref. 205). Form pairs during breeding (Ref. 205).

Habitat

associated