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The genus Sufflamen: five species.
The genus Sufflamen has the mellowest Triggerfish species; they may
even leave your damsels alone. Most grow to about a foot maximum
in length
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Bluethroat or Whitetail Trigger, Sufflamen albicaudatus
(Ruppell 1829). Western Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Gulf of Oman. A
beauty and peaceful as triggers go. Have even seen this species
kept in reef systems. To eight inches in length. Female and male
in the Red Sea pictured.
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Most commonly offered are the Sickle, Lei or my favorite,
Boomerang Triggerfish, Sufflamen bursa (Bloch &
Schneider 1801), (mainly out of Hawai'i), an adult there
shown and a smaller (four inch) individual in the Cooks.
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More rarely, and very similar to the Whitetail, you may find
the Indo-Pacific Halfmoon or Whitetip Trigger, Sufflamen
chrysopterus (Bloch & Schneider 1801). Fiji juvenile of
about two inch length and aquarium and Maldives and N. Sulawesi
photographs. Note the discontinuous white border on the
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| Sufflamen fraenatus (Latreille 1804), the
Masked Triggerfish. Indo-Pacific east African coast, out to
Hawai'i, where this specimen is at right, and one in Nuka Hiva,
Marquesas, Polynesia. To fifteen inches in length. Females are brown to
yellow-gray, having a bright yellow bar on the lower lip; males have a long
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The Orangeside Trigger, Suffflamen verres (Gilbert
& Starks 1904). Tropical eastern Pacific, Mexico's Baja
to Ecuador and the Galapagos. To sixteen inches in length. Right:
A female in the
Galapagos. Below, a male/beauty in Costa Rica (Pacific side).
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