Beaked Coral Fish, colour. Chelmon rostratus marginalis (Linnaeus)

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Artwork by Frank Olsen.

A common butterflyfish with a very long snout, two narrow orange bars on the head and anterior body, a bar down the middle of the body, a broad yellowish or yellowish-orange band on the rear of the body divided by a crescent-shaped white bar, and a false eyespot or ocellus on the dorsal fin.

This species grows to 20 cm in length, and occurs in tropical marine waters of the Indo-West Pacific. In Australia it is known from the northern Great Barrier Reef to the central coast of New South Wales.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 6177

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