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Balistes bellus Walbaum 1792. Balistes equestris Gronow 1854. Balistes vetula trinitatis Nichols & Murphy 1914. Balistes vetula, the queen triggerfish or old wife, is a reef dwelling triggerfish found in the Atlantic Ocean. It is occasionally caught as a gamefish, and sometimes kept in very large marine aquaria .
Triggerfish. Triggerfish are about 40 species of often brightly colored fish of the family Balistidae. Often marked by lines and spots, they inhabit tropical and subtropical oceans throughout the world, with the greatest species richness in the Indo-Pacific. Most are found in relatively shallow, coastal habitats, especially at coral reefs, but ...
finescale triggerfish. Pacific Coast of the Americas from San Francisco southwards to Callao, Peru and the Galapagos. Balistes punctatus J. F. Gmelin, 1789. bluespotted triggerfish. Eastern Atlantic. Balistes vetula Linnaeus, 1758. queen triggerfish. Western Atlantic, it ranges from Canada to southern Brazil, and in the eastern Atlantic it is ...
The reef triggerfish was designated the official fish of Hawaii in 1985, [6] but due to an expiration of a Hawaiian state law after five years, it ceased to be the state fish in 1990. [7] On April 17, 2006, bill HB1982 was presented to the Governor of Hawaiʻi , which permanently reinstated the reef triggerfish ( humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa ) as ...
Canthidermis. Species: C. sufflamen. Binomial name. Canthidermis sufflamen. Mitchill, 1815. Canthidermis sufflamen, the ocean triggerfish, is a species of pelagic triggerfish that can be found throughout the western Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, [2] with its range extending as far north as Massachusetts and as far south as Brazil. [3]
The park is also a habitat to several endangered marine species such as the loggerhead and hawksbill sea turtles, queen triggerfish, and the endemic splendid toadfish. [8] Due to the abundant marine life and coral reefs the clear and warm Caribbean water, Cozumel is considered one of the best scuba-diving destinations in the world. [11]
Bank reefs provide habitat for various fishes, including French angelfish, blue and queen parrotfish, Queen triggerfish (Balistes vetula), rock beauties (Holacanthus tricolor), Goatfish (Parupeneus cyclostomus), porkfish (Anisotremus virginicus) and snappers. The sand found around and in the Florida Reef is composed of shell, coral skeleton and ...
Rays and skates. Spotted eagle ray ( Aetobatus narinari) Cousseau's skate ( Bathyraja cousseauae) Kerguelen sandpaper skate ( Bathyraja irrasa) Mccain's skate ( Bathyraja maccaini) Cuphead skate ( Bathyraja scaphiops) Spinytail skate ( Bathyraja spinicauda) Dasyatis acutirostra.