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Triggerfishes of the Genus
Melichthys
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Melichthys vidua
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The genus Melichthys: three species.
Melichthys indicus (Randall & Klausewitz 1973), the
Indian Triggerfish. Indian Ocean, Red Sea including east African
coast. To ten inches in length. A good fish-only aquarium
species. This one in the Maldives.
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Most wholesalers offer two species of Melichthys more or less
continuously, the circumtropical Black (Durgon) Triggerfish,
Melichthys niger (Bloch 1786) (usually out of
Hawai'i), to eighteen inches. Pictured: an individual in
the Bahamas, and one in Maui, Hawai'i.
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And the Pinktail Trigger, Melichthys vidua
(Richardson 1845), is the other commonly offered member of the
genus. Found throughout the Indo-Pacific. These are
"medium" aggressive fish species that grow to about a
foot in length in captivity, sixteen inches in the wild. Here are
specimens in captivity and Hawai'i.
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