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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Ray-finned Fishes
  5. Puffers and Filefishes
  6. Triggerfishes, Boxfishes, and Filefishes

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Triggerfishes, Boxfishes, and Filefishes

Balistoidei

Includes
18 native 19 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Leatherjackets 7 native
  • Boxfishes 6 native
  • Triggerfishes 5 native
  • Deepwater Boxfishes

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native triggerfishes, boxfishes, and filefishes All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Lagoon Triggerfish Rhinecanthus aculeatus 4,097 observations
  • Scrawled Filefish Aluterus scriptus 4,064 observations
  • Wedgetail Triggerfish Rhinecanthus rectangulus 2,728 observations
  • Grey Triggerfish Balistes capriscus 2,278 observations
  • Planehead Filefish Stephanolepis hispida 1,925 observations
  • Finescale Triggerfish Balistes polylepis 1,374 observations
  • Orange Filefish Aluterus schoepfii 379 observations
  • Roundbelly Cowfish Lactoria diaphana 309 observations
  • Fantail Filefish Pervagor spilosoma 91 observations
  • Shy Filefish Cantherhines verecundus 31 observations

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