Spotfin Butterflyfish
Chaetodon ocellatus Bloch, 1787
Chordata › Perciformes › Chaetodontidae
Records by month at ReefSeason sites
Monthly counts appear only where the species made a site's top 25 for that month, so treat them as a lower bound.
Jan
1
Feb
1
Mar
2
Apr
2
May
66
Jun
385
Jul
272
Aug
581
Sep
282
Oct
60
Nov
29
Dec
2
Where it's recorded
- Conch Reef (220 records)
- Molasses Reef (197 records)
- Alligator Reef (176 records)
- French Reef (133 records)
- Looe Key (133 records)
- Sombrero Key (122 records)
- Pickles Reef (122 records)
- Davis Reef (108 records)
- Carysfort Reef (96 records)
- Western Sambo (95 records)
- Tennessee Reef (74 records)
- Cheeca Rocks (73 records)
- Sand Key (50 records)
- Key Largo Dry Rocks (Christ of the Abyss) (34 records)
- Neptune Memorial Reef (31 records)
- USCGC Bibb wreck (14 records)
- Blue Heron Bridge (Phil Foster Park) (12 records)
Taxonomy and names: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Occurrence data: GBIF.org, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records only. See each site page for dataset citations. No photo yet: we only show images with a verified open license.