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Chaetodon larvatus

Taken 2018, Hamata area

Chaetodon larvatus
Greenshank, 26 Nov 2020
    • CheeseChameleon1945
      Wonderful find! AKA the Hooded butterflyfish, Swims together in pairs, highly territorial, and usually feeds on Acropora corals.
    • Greenshank
      @CheeseChameleon2007 that's the one, hooded butterflyfish is the common name, orange face butterflyfish is another, I prefer scientific names for fish. In my experience at least it's easy enough to find in its native range and fascinating to watch like all butterflyfish
    • CheeseChameleon1945
      @Greenshank I prefer Scientific names for any and every animal, I just knew some other people usually refer to animals by their Common name.
    • Greenshank
      @CheeseChameleon2007 I agree with you, I prefer them as well as they're unambiguous and tell you a lot more about where the animal fits in the tree of life (and I like pronouncing them as well haha) but would be easier if they didn't change so often. Feel like I'm the only person who knows the scientific names of birds though
    • CheeseChameleon1945
      @Greenshank Don't worry, Scientific names are my strong point. I use scientific names for a lot of mammals too!
    • Greenshank
      @CheeseChameleon2007 good to hear. With regards to mammal scientific names I'm sad to say I don't know very many as unlike practically all other members of this forum I'm not exactly 'into' mammals in the way that I am for fish and birds. True I do enjoy seeing them and probably know more about them than 99% of the population but I'm not exactly a mammal expert but I feel if I ever became 'properly' interested I'd end up learnng the scientific names faster than you can say Daubentonia madagascariensis. But it's an interesting point that scientific names are commonly used for fish, invertebrates etc but seem to be very uncommonly used for birds and mammals presumably as they have more 'accepted' common names
    • CheeseChameleon1945
      @Greenshank Sorry if my posts were misleading, but mammals are not my main interest AT ALL as of right now. Invertebrate discrimination as I like to say. I give common names to a bunch of animals that don't have them, but I mostly always use scientific names when referring to these things. For instance, my favorite taxa in general are Bryozoa, Salticidae, Pantopoda, Nemerta, Caperellidae, Ostracoda and Chaldocera. I enjoy other animals like Otus and Viverridae, but invertebrates are easily my favorite animals. I have always thought the reason why scientific names were almost always referred to in animals other than Mammals and Birds was because simply numbers. Most animals in the world are Invertebrates, so its generally harder to create widely accepted names for all animals on earth.
    • Greenshank
      @CheeseChameleon2007 to be honest I didn't really think that but so cool that you're interested in some of the more obscure marine invertebrates (presuming you mean Cladocera as in water fleas or else there's a Chaldocera even a marine biology student hasn't heard of!). All very fascinating creatures just always found these sorts of things hard to get into given the amount of time and effort needed to find and identify them though watching them down the microscope is fantastic! I agree with you on the numbers, but I think it's also because they're better known and more people are interested in them. Just realised how far off topic this has all gone:p
    • CheeseChameleon1945
      @Greenshank Yup, pretty far off-topic. :p Yes, most of my animals that I'm interested in are small marine inverts, so yeah. I appreciate all animals really, but small marine inverts are my favorite out of all of them. :)
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