🐡Reef triggerfish
The reef triggerfish, also known as the rectangular triggerfish, wedgetail triggerfish or by its Hawaiian name humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa, is one of several species of triggerfish. It is found in coral reefs in the entirety of the Western Pacific Ocean from North to South and Eastern Central Pacific. It is also found in the Indian Ocean from East to West and the Southeast Atlantic Ocean. It exists in 0 to 50 meters in depth.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- not recorded
- Body length
- 0.3 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Reef triggerfish
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body length0.3 mmaximum recordedFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic level3.52FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 3.52 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Reef triggerfish yet: body mass, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›orderTetraodontiformes
- ›familyBalistidae
- ›genusRhinecanthus
- ›speciesRhinecanthus rectangulus
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- superfamilyBalistoidea
- familyBalistidae
- genusRhinecanthus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
- classActinopteri
- subclassNeopterygii
- orderAcanthomorphata
- orderTetraodontiformes
- superfamilyBalistoidea
- familyBalistidae
- genusRhinecanthus
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