The three-banded butterflyfish (''Chaetodon robustus'') is a species of

fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of ...

in the

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Chaetodontidae. It inhabits the eastern-central

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, in warm tropical waters from Mauritania down to Cape Verde and the

Gulf of Guinea The Gulf of Guinea is the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean from Cape Lopez in Gabon, north and west to Cape Palmas in Liberia. The intersection of the Equator and Prime Meridian (zero degrees latitude and longitude) is in ...

. It is present in coral reefs, from 30 to 70 meters deep. Its maximum length is 14.5 cm.

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three-banded butterflyfish Fish of the East Atlantic Marine fauna of West Africa three-banded butterflyfish Taxa named by Albert Günther Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Chaetodontidae-stub