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Balistidae
ocean triggerfish
Canthidermis sufflamen
Tall fin rays equal head length
- Tropical
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Africa
- North America
- South America
- Deep-bodied
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Deep-bodied
Largeocean triggerfish is known around Western Atlantic as a marine fish; It occurs in reef habitat, and the species reaches a recorded maximum of 65 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Balistidae
- Genus
- Canthidermis
- Maximum length
- 65 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Massachusetts (USA), Bermuda, and northern Gulf of Mexico to South America. Eastern Atlantic: St. Paul's Rocks, Ascension, Cape Verde and St. Helena (Ref. 5288 ); Sao Tome Island (Ref. 34088 ). Stray recod from Canada (Ref. 5951 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
