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- noun Plural form of
butterflyfish .
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Examples
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Pufferfishes, filefishes, triggerfishes, and butterflyfishes (Family Chaetodonidae) actively consume individual coral polyps.
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Disk and oval-shaped fishes: butterflyfishes, angelfishes, and surgeonfishes 2.
hernesheir commented on the word butterflyfishes
The chaetodontids.
July 14, 2010