Sufflamen

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Sufflamen
Sufflamen chrysopterum2.jpg
Sufflamen chrysopterum
Sufflamen fraenatum fishbase.jpg
Sufflamen fraenatum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Balistidae
Genus: Sufflamen
D. S. Jordan, 1916

Sufflamen is a genus of triggerfishes that is native to the reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Species

There are currently 5 recognized species in this genus: [1]

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Pez ballesta (Sufflamen albicaudatum), mar Rojo, Egipto, 2023-04-19, DD 32.jpg Sufflamen albicaudatum Rüppell, 1829Bluethroat triggerfishwestern Indian Ocean
Scythe triggerfish (Sufflamen bursa) (47058283462).jpg Sufflamen bursa Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801Boomerang triggerfishIndo-Pacific.
Pez ballesta (Sufflamen chrysopterum), Anilao, Filipinas, 2023-08-23, DD 178.jpg Sufflamen chrysopterum Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801Halfmoon triggerfishtropical Indo-West Pacific area.
Sufflamen fraenatum Reunion.jpg Sufflamen fraenatum Latreille, 1804Masked triggerfishthe Indian Ocean coast of Africa and throughout much of the Indo-Pacific region from Indonesia to the Hawaiian Islands.
Orangeside Triggerfish Diego.JPG Sufflamen verres C. H. Gilbert & Starks, 1904Orangeside triggerfishthe Pacific coast of Central and South America from Mexico to Ecuador.

References

  1. Matsuura, Keiichi (2015). "Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: A review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014". Ichthyological Research. 62: 72–113. doi: 10.1007/s10228-014-0444-5 . S2CID   15223867.