About Chaetodon fasciatus Forsskål, 1775
Chaetodon fasciatus Forsskål, 1775, commonly known as the diagonal butterflyfish, has a yellow body marked with 11 diagonal stripes. A vertical black band runs through the eye on its head, and it has an incomplete white band on the forehead. Its dorsal, anal, and caudal fins are all yellow. This species reaches a maximum total length of 22 centimetres, or 8.7 inches. The diagonal butterflyfish is distributed in the northwestern Indian Ocean. It has been recorded from the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, ranging south as far as Kenya. Diagonal butterflyfish live over and around corals, and they feed on corals. They have also been observed feeding on gelatinous zooplankton, including jellyfish in the class Scyphozoa and comb jellies in the phylum Ctenophora.
