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Grey Triggerfish

Balistes capriscus

Also known as: Common Triggerfish, Filefish, Pig-faced, Turbot

VUVulnerableIUCN Red List, 2015
LIFE STAGE
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Juvenile
@heraldothompson · Phil Foster Park, United States · September 20151 / 2

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Overview

Found singly, or in small schools, in bays, harbours, lagoons, and seaward reefs, also drifting with their young, amongst seagrass beds.

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How to identify

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Habitat & where to find it

Where the juvenile stage lives, and where its photos were taken.

  • Range · Western Atlantic, Caribbean, Eastern Atlantic
  • Country only · 2
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Found singly, or in small schools, in bays, harbours, lagoons, and seaward reefs, also drifting with their young, amongst seagrass beds.

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Juvenile photos 2

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Discussion

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    ALL STAGES
    FOR THE MARINE-BIOLOGY CURIOUS

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderTetraodontiformes
    5. familyBalistidae
    6. genusBalistes
    7. speciesBalistes capriscus Gmelin, 1789

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