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

family

Triggerfishes

Balistidae

Includes
5 native 10 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Triggerfish 3 native
  • Picasso Triggerfishes 2 native
  • Balistoides
  • Pseudobalistes
  • Sufflamen
  • Oceanic Triggerfishes
  • Odonus
  • Melichthys
  • Xanthichthys
  • Balistapus

Range

United States

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

Most observed native triggerfishes All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Lagoon Triggerfish Rhinecanthus aculeatus 4,097 observations
  • Wedgetail Triggerfish Rhinecanthus rectangulus 2,728 observations
  • Grey Triggerfish Balistes capriscus 2,278 observations
  • Finescale Triggerfish Balistes polylepis 1,374 observations

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