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Redtoothed triggerfish may inhabit reef channels or long slopes that have strong water currents. They survive by hiding under between rocks and crevices so they don't get swept away by the water currents. They also may live in the coastal shallow inshore waters at depths of around 30 – 100 feet (9 – 30 meters).
The black triggerfish or black durgon (Melichthys niger), called Humuhumu'ele'ele in Hawaiian, is a blimp-shaped triggerfish with bright white lines running along its dorsal and anal fins. From distance, it appears to be completely black.
The triggerfish family, Balistidae. was first proposed in 1810 by the French polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. [4] The closest relatives to the triggerfishes are the filefishses belonging to the family Monacanthidae and these two families are sometimes classified together in the suborder Balistoidei, for example in the 5th edition of Fishes of the World. [5]
The Lei Triggerfish inhabits regions of a coral reef before a surge zone as to avoid the chaos and general dissonance within the water where waves crash. This species lives in warm shallow waters with sandy and reefy bottoms. In the presence of a predator, they hide in reef crevices and do this especially at night.
Reef safe is a distinction used in the saltwater aquarium hobby to indicate that a fish or invertebrate is safe to add to a reef aquarium. There is no fish that is completely reef safe. Every fish that is commonly listed as reef safe are species that usually do not readily consume small fish or invertebrates.
Melichthys is a small genus in the triggerfish family ().Member species are found in the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean and even the Red Sea (M. niger).The Black triggerfish is the largest species in this genus at 45 cm in length and the Indian triggerfish is the smallest at 25 cm. Melichthys niger and Melichthys indicus are similar in appearance and are often confused.
outrigger triggerfish: Indo-West Pacific. Xanthichthys greenei Pyle & Earle, 2013 [3] Kiri triggerfish: Pacific Ocean Xanthichthys lineopunctatus Hollard, 1854: striped triggerfish: South Africa eastward through northern Australia to New Guinea, north to southern Japan. Xanthichthys mento D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882: redtail triggerfish ...
Titan triggerfish with orange-lined triggerfish and moorish idols at the reef of Fihalhohi, Maldives. The titan triggerfish is diurnal and solitary. It feeds on sea urchins, molluscs, crustaceans, tube worms and coral. [2] It often feeds by turning over rocks, stirring up sand and biting off pieces of branching coral.