Tag: Beaked Butterflyfish

A copperband butterflyfish (Chelmon rostratus) – with its elegant white body, bold black vertical bands, incredibly long tubular snout, and vivid yellow-orange tail – was gliding over the Indo-Pacific reef when it spotted something: a tiny tulip cone snail with a beautiful reticulated patterned shell and dark band. The snail vanished inside a sand hole.…