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Red-toothed triggerfish

Characteristics

  • Eggs are demersal. Females tend eggs by fanning and blowing water. Both males and females guard eggs.
  • Usually occurs singly or in pairs. Known to form large aggregations elsewhere.
  • Males maintain territories containing a few females.
  • Planktivorous.

Description

  • Body dark blue.
  • Head pale blue.
  • Two dark blue stripes extend from eye to mouth.
  • Teeth red.
  • Caudal fins lunate. Both upper and lower lobes elongated.

Common Name: Red-toothed triggerfish

Family Common Name: Triggerfishes

Family: Balistidae

Scientific Name: Odonus niger___(Rüppell, 1836)

Genus: Odonus

Maximum Length: 50 cm (Total Length)

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未評估
Not Evaluated (ne)
數據缺乏
Data Deficient (dd)
無危
Least Concern (lc)
近危
Near Threatened (nt)
易危
Vulnerable (vu)
瀕危
Endangered (en)
極危
Critically Endangered (cr)
絕滅
Extinct (ex)
Red-toothed triggerfish

Related fish

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