Heniochus varius | 水產百科網

Heniochusvarius,thehornedbannerfishorhumpheadbannerfish,isaspeciesofmarineray-finnedfish,abutterflyfishbelongingtothefamilyChaetodontidae, ...

Species of fish

Heniochus varius, the horned bannerfish or humphead bannerfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a butterflyfish belonging to the family Chaetodontidae, native from the central Indo-Pacific area.

The horned bannerfish is a small-sized fish that can reach a maximum length of 19 centimetres (7.5 in).[3] It has the typical deep-bodied and highly compressed body, typical of butterflyfishes.[4]

The horned bannerfish is told apart from its congeners by the adults having a pair of obvious horns on the forehead, just above the eyes and a prominent bump on the forehead.[2] The predominant colour on the body is brown to blackish broken by a thin white band behind the head and a second running from the spiny part of the dorsal fin to the caudal peduncle.[5] The two wh...