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The queen triggerfish (Balistes vetula) is a large triggerfish species found in the tropical Atlantic Ocean.Its body coloration ranges from steel grey to olive green, but areas around its mouth is orange with striking electric blue rays.
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]
An ocean triggerfish, Canthidermis sufflamen, on display at the New England Aquarium in October 2023. Note the distinguishing black mark at the base of the pectoral fin. The gray triggerfish, Balistes capriscus, is similar in color to the ocean triggerfish but lacks a characteristic black marking at the base of its pectoral fins.
Balistes puncatus has a relatively wide distribution but the triggerfish catch has declined in the decades leading up to 2025 in Togo and Ghana. The biomass of the bluespotted triggerfish has decreased from the late 1980s despite the same fishing effort being made and in 1989-91 almost no triggerfish were caught in Ghanaian coastal waters.
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]
Xanthichthys ringens, the Sargassum triggerfish, is a species of triggerfish from the Western Atlantic, ranging from North Carolina (USA) to Brazil. Description
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grey triggerfish: western Atlantic from Nova Scotia to Argentina and also the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea and off Angola on the west coast of Africa. Balistes polylepis Steindachner, 1876: finescale triggerfish: Pacific Coast of the Americas from San Francisco southwards to Callao, Peru and the Galapagos. Balistes punctatus J. F ...