Masked triggerfish
| Masked triggerfish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| 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
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Sufflamen fraenatum" in FishBase. 2011 version.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Sufflamen verres" in FishBase. October 2012 version.
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