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Balistidae
Hairfin triggerfish
Abalistes filamentosus
Slender tail filaments trailing through dim deep water
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- Oceania
- Deep-bodied
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Deep-bodied
MediumHairfin triggerfish is a marine fish of deeper Indo-Pacific waters. The upper and lower tips of its tail trail behind as slender filaments.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Balistidae
- Genus
- Abalistes
- Maximum length
- 32.5 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Indo-West Pacific: Ryukyu Islands to the Northwest Shelf of Australia, and the Timor Sea.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
