Halfmoon triggerfish

Sufflamen chrysopterum

Fish Reaching Thirty Centimeters in the Red Sea

Halfmoon triggerfish is known from Indo-Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Puffers, Triggerfishes, and Allies
Family: Balistidae
Genus: Sufflamen
Maximum length: 30 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: deep_bodied
Distribution: Indo-Pacific: East Africa and eastward through northern Australia to Samoa; north to southern Japan. Replaced by closely related Sufflamen albicaudatus in the Red Sea (Ref. 37816 ).
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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