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Masked triggerfish
Inhabit coastal rocky reefs, often silty habitats and in lagoons on open sand. Found over sand and rubble patches of seaward reefs.
Benthopelagic.
Feed on echinoids, fishes, mollusks, tunicates, crustaceans, algae, polychaete worms, foraminiferans and detritus.
Synonyms:
Balistes capistratus Shaw, 1804
Balistes fraenatus Latreille, 1804
Sufflamen capistratus (Shaw, 1804)
Sufflamen fraenatus (Latreille, 1804)
Sufflamen freanatus (Latreille, 1804)
Sufflamen frenatus (Latreille, 1804)
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Balistidae (Family) > Sufflamen (Genus) > Sufflamen fraenatum (Species)
Inhabit coastal rocky reefs, often silty habitats and in lagoons on open sand. Found over sand and rubble patches of seaward reefs.
Benthopelagic.
Feed on echinoids, fishes, mollusks, tunicates, crustaceans, algae, polychaete worms, foraminiferans and detritus.
Synonyms:
Balistes capistratus Shaw, 1804
Balistes fraenatus Latreille, 1804
Sufflamen capistratus (Shaw, 1804)
Sufflamen fraenatus (Latreille, 1804)
Sufflamen freanatus (Latreille, 1804)
Sufflamen frenatus (Latreille, 1804)
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Balistidae (Family) > Sufflamen (Genus) > Sufflamen fraenatum (Species)