Biology:Masked triggerfish

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Short description: Species of fish

Masked triggerfish
Sufflamen fraenatum fishbase.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
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. Matsuura, K.; Fricke, R. (2017). "Sufflamen fraenatum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T154721A115227260. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T154721A4617775.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/154721/115227260. Retrieved 27 December 2021. {{cite iucn}}: error: |doi= / |page= mismatch (help)
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Sufflamen fraenatum" in FishBase. October 2012 version.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2712567 entry