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Xanthichthys mento, the redtail triggerfish, blue-throat triggerfish, or crosshatch triggerfish, is a species of triggerfish from the Pacific.It inhabits outer-reef areas at depths of 6–131 m (20–430 ft), and feeds on zooplankton. [1]
The bluethroat triggerfish (Sufflamen albicaudatum) is a triggerfish from the western Indian Ocean. It is occasionally seen in the aquarium trade. It is occasionally seen in the aquarium trade. It grows to 22 cm (8.7 in) in length.
The gilded triggerfish or blue-throated triggerfish, Xanthichthys auromarginatus, is a spotted gray triggerfish. Males of the species have blue cheeks and yellow-bordered, white fins. It is widely, but locally, distributed at islands in the Indo-Pacific.
The triggerfish family, Balistidae. was first proposed in 1810 by the French polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. [4] The closest relantives to the triggerfishes are the filefishses belonging to the family Monacanthidae and these two families are sometimes classified together in the suborder Balistoidei, for example in the 5th edition of Fishes of the World. [5]
outrigger triggerfish: Indo-West Pacific. Xanthichthys greenei Pyle & Earle, 2013 [3] Kiri triggerfish: Pacific Ocean Xanthichthys lineopunctatus Hollard, 1854: striped triggerfish: South Africa eastward through northern Australia to New Guinea, north to southern Japan. Xanthichthys mento D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882: redtail triggerfish ...
Redtoothed triggerfish are normally deep purple with bluish-green markings on their heads and glowing light blue margins on the tail lobes and fins. Just like other fish in the family Balistidae, the tail is lyre-shaped. The mouth of the triggerfish seems to be grinning and it maintains tiny red teeth that are needle-sharp with two teeth in the ...
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"Blue-lined triggerfish" can refer to either of 2 species of such fishes: Pseudobalistes fuscus (blue triggerfish or rippled triggerfish) Xanthichthys caeruleolineatus