Gaimard 1825) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Polynesia) Stripey Microcanthus strigatus (Cuvier, 1831) (Antiequatorial, Isolated populations in western and eastern Australia, and in the Hawaiian Island and Taiwan to Japan) Family Ephippidae - Batfishes Hump-headed batfish Platax batavianus Cuvier, 1831 (Malay Peninsula to northern Australia) Orbicular batfish Platax orbicularis (Forsskal, 1775) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Taumotus) Pinnate batfish Platax pinnatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Western Pacific from the Ryukyu Islands to Australia) Teira batfish Platax teira (Forsskal, 1775) (East Africa and the Red Sea to Melanesia) Short-finned batfish Zabidius novemaculeatus (McCulloch, 1916) syn. Platax novemaculatus ((as P. novemaculatus)Northern Australia and southern New Guinea) Family Chaetodontidae – Butterflyfishes Bennett's butterflyfish Chaetodon bennetti Cuvier, 1831 (East Africa to the Pitcairn Islands, and north to Japan) Speckled butterflyfish Chaetodon citrinellus Cuvier, 1831 (East Africa to the Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu archipelago) Saddled butterflyfish Chaetodon ephippium Cuvier, 1831 (Cocos-Keeling Islands to the Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago) Dusky butterflyfish Chaetodon flavirostris Guenther, 1873 (Great Barrier Reef to Pitcairn Islands) Gunther's butterflyfish Chaetodon guentheri Ahl, 1913 (Merimbula, New South Wales, to Capricorn Group, Queensland.) (Antiequatorial. Lord How Island and New South Wales, also Japan. Sighted at Lizard Island) Klein's butterflyfish Chaetodon kleinii Bloch, 1790 (East Africa and the Red Sea to Hawaiian Islands and Samoa) Lined butterflyfish Chaetodon lineolatus Cuvier, 1831 (East Africa and the Red Sea to Polynesia) Raccoon butterflyfish Chaetodon lunula (Lacepede, 1802) (East Africa to Polynesia) Blackback butterflyfish Chaetodon melannotus Bloch and Schneider, 1801 (East Africa and the Red Sea to Samoa and north to Japan) Merten's butterflyfish Chaetodon mertensii Cuvier, 1831 (Lord Howe Island and the Great Barrier Reef to the Ryukyu Islands and east to the Tuamotu Archipelago) Meyer's butterflyfish Chaetodon meyeri Bloch and Schneider, 1801 (East Africa to the Line Islands) Spot-tail butterflyfish Chaetodon ocellicaudus Cuvier, 1831 (East Indies, Philippines and northern Great Barrier Reef) Ornate butterflyfish Chaetodon ornatissimus Cuvier, 1831 (Sri Lanka to Polynesia) Spotnape butterflyfish Chaetodon oxycephalus Bleeker, 1851 (Sri Lanka to Queensland and north to the Philippines) Dot and dash butterflyfish Chaetodon pelewensis Kner, 1868 (Southern Oceania from Queensland to the Tuamotus) Bluespot butterflyfish Chaetodon plebeius Cuvier, 1831 (Andaman sea to Fiji and north to Japan) Spot-banded butterflyfish Chaetodon punctatofasciatus Cuvier 1831 (Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) to the Line Islands) Latticed butterflyfish Chaetodon rafflesii Bennett, 1830 (Sri Lanka to Taumotus and north to Japan) Rainford's Butterflyfish Chaetodon rainfordi McCulloch, 1923 (Great Barrier