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Definition of Family Chaetodontidae
1. Noun. Butterfly fishes.
Exact synonyms: Chaetodontidae
Generic synonyms: Fish Family
Group relationships: Order Perciformes, Order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi
Member holonyms: Butterfly Fish, Genus Chaetodon, Genus Pomacanthus, Pomacanthus
Generic synonyms: Fish Family
Group relationships: Order Perciformes, Order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi
Member holonyms: Butterfly Fish, Genus Chaetodon, Genus Pomacanthus, Pomacanthus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Chaetodontidae
Literary usage of Family Chaetodontidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The big game fishes of the United States by Charles Frederick Holder (1903)
"The angel-fishes proper belong to the family Chaetodontidae, which includes nine
or ten genera or about two hundred species, mainly found in tropical seas ..."
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