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 Triggerfishes of the Genus Pseudobalistes

Bob Fenner

Pseudobalistes fuscus and Ray



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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.

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, and SIO.

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The Blue Line, Rippled 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. Below a juv. at the SIO Aq. and a mid-size individual off of Costa Rica's west coast.

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Triggerfishes for  Marine Aquariums
Diversity, Selection & Care
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by Robert (Bob) Fenner

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