Occurrence of Pennat Coral Fish, Heniochus acuminatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Perciformes: Chaetodontidae) along Digha Coast, India

The family Chaetodontidae popularly known as Butterfly fish is an important aquarium fish distributed in coral reefs of tropical and subtropical regions (Allen et at, 1998). They are also important bio-indicator species for assessing the health of coral reefs as they feed on coral polyps (Hourigan et al., 1988). There are 128 species from 13 genera available worldwide (Froese and Pauly, 2012), out of which 38 species from 4 genera reported in Indian waters (Rajan, 2010).