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Pseudobalistes
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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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