Masked triggerfish

Masked triggerfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Balistidae
Genus: Sufflamen
Species: S. fraenatum
Binomial name
Sufflamen fraenatum
(C. H. Gilbert & Starks, 1904)

The masked triggerfish (Sufflamen fraenatum) is a species of triggerfish usually found living in coastal reefs or in lagoons. The range of depths where these triggerfish can live varies from 8 to 186 m.

They are found along the Indian Ocean coast of Africa and throughout much of the Indo-Pacific region from Indonesia to the Hawaiian Islands.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Sufflamen fraenatum" in FishBase. 2011 version.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Sufflamen verres" in FishBase. October 2012 version.
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