Florent's Guide To The

Tropical Pacific Reefs

Big Longnose Butterflyfish
Big Longnose Butterflyfish
Scientific Name: Forcipiger longirostris
Family: Chaetodontidae
Category: Butterflyfishes
Also known as: Rare Longnose Butterflyfish
Size: 5 to 8 in. (13 to 20 cm)  
Depth: 15-180 ft. (5-55 m)
Distribution: Indo-Pacific, Hawaii
Note: Almost identical to the Longnose Butterflyfish, except slightly longersnout and lines of dots behind pectoral fins.

Fish
Disk & Large Oval
Butterflyfishes

Big Longnose Butterflyfish

Orange-Banded Coralfish

Two-Eyed Coralfish

Pyramid Butterflyfish

Saddled Butterflyfish

Vagabond Butterflyfish

Atoll Butterflyfish

Crosshatch Butterflyfish

Chevroned Butterflyfish

Ornate Butterflyfish

Spot-Nape Butterflyfish

Eastern Triangular Butterflyfish

Redfin Butterflyfish

Fourspot Butterflyfish

Speckled Butterflyfish

Spot-Banded Butterflyfish (Juvenile)

Spot-Banded Butterflyfish

Dot-Dash Butterflyfish

Multiband Butterflyfish

Milletseed Butterflyfish

Raccoon Butterflyfish

Pacific Double-Saddle Butterflyfish

Panda Butterflyfish

Black-Backed Butterflyfish

Blue-Spot Butterflyfish

Dotted butterflyfish

Eclipse Butterflyfish

Ovalspot Butterflyfish

Teardrop Butterflyfish

Meyer's Butterflyfish

Latticed Butterflyfish

Eight-Banded Butterflyfish

Eight-Banded Butterflyfish (White Variation)

Blacklip Butterflyfish

Reticulated Butterflyfish

Threadfin Butterflyfish

Bluestripe Butterflyfish

Humphead Bannerfish

Pennant Bannerfish

Masked Bannerfish

Singular Bannerfish

Schooling Bannerfish

Longnose Butterflyfish

Surgeonfishes
Rabbitfishes
Angelfishes
Zanclidae

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