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Related FAQs: Sufflamen Species, Triggerfishes
in General,
Triggerfish:
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Selection,
Selection 2, Compatibility,
Behavior,
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Diseases, Triggerfish
Health 2, Reproduction,
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Triggerfishes of the Genus Sufflamen
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Sufflamen albicaudatus
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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 tail.
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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,
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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. One in the Mar de Cortez,
another a bit mas al sur in Los Galapagos.
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