Halfmoon triggerfish
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| Halfmoon triggerfish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Balistidae |
| Genus: | Sufflamen Jordan, 1916 |
| Species: | S. chrysopterum |
| Binomial name | |
| Sufflamen chrysopterum (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) |
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The Halfmoon triggerfish, Sufflamen chrysopterum, is a triggerfish of the tropical Indo-West Pacific area.
The Halfmoon triggerfish lives around seaward reefs and shallow lagoons. It is solitary and can often be seen swimming around coral looking for small animals, like crustaceans and worms, on which it feeds.
The Halfmoon picassofish species is often also named Halfmoon triggerfish.
[edit] References
- "Sufflamen chrysopterum". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=173215. Retrieved 29 April 2006.
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Sufflamen chrysopterum" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
