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Triggerfishes of the Genus
Pseudobalistes
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by Bob Fenner
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Pseudobalistes fuscus and Ray |
The genus Pseudobalistes: three species.
The genus Pseudobalistes sports a trio of good-looking, but large triggers.
These triggers all get to about two feet long.
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Yellow Fin, Margin or Face Triggerfish, Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus (Ruppell
1829). A beauty and peaceful for a triggerfish when small. To two feet.
Indo-west Pacific, Red Sea to along Africa's eastern coast to Natal. Here is a
one inch individual in the Maldives, an adult off or Pulau Redang, Malaysia, and
a still larger one in N. Sulawesi.
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The Blue Line Triggerfish ("Yellow-Spotted Triggerfish" to
science), Pseudobalistes fuscus (Bloch & Schneider 1801).
Indo-Pacific, Red Sea, east African coast to South Africa. To twenty two inches
in length. Below juveniles of four and eight inches in captivity and a full size adult in the Red Sea shown.
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The Blunthead or Stone Triggerfish Pseudobalistes
naufragium (Jordan & Starks 1895). Tropical eastern Pacific Ocean,
Mexico's Baja to Chile. To, yes, a meter in length. Two and three feet long ones in the Sea of
Cortez..
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