triggerfishes in English

noun
1
a marine fish occurring chiefly in tropical inshore waters. It has a large, stout dorsal spine that can be erected and locked into place, allowing the fish to wedge itself into crevices.
In marine areas, species concentrations are highest around coral reefs, where butterflyfishes and angelfishes, wrasses, parrotfishes and triggerfishes are common.

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1. Boxfishes / Filefishes / Mola Sunfish / Puffers / Porcupinefishes / Triggerfishes

2. Triggerfishes nerds ethnohistory Afrete rhythmicize

3. Composed of the Balistid triggerfishes and their Eocene spinacanthid sister group

4. Balistidae (triggerfishes), a family of fishes of the order Tet-raodontiformes

5. Balistid, TRIGGERFISHES, AND MONACANTHID FILEFISHES (TETRAODONTIFORMES) OF NORTH CAROLINA FRANK J

6. Florent's Guide To The South Florida Reefs Fish, Corals and Creatures - Triggerfishes - Filefishes - Boxfishes - Porcupinefishes - Pufferfishes - Drums - Goatfishes - Trumpetfishes - Sweepers - Remoras

7. SCHWARTZ Institute of Marine Sciences University of North Carolina More head City, NC 28557-3209 Abstract: Six Balistids (triggerfishes) and eight Monocanthids (filefishes) occur in North Carolina's inland and ocean waters

8. Definition of Boxfish : any of a number of small bright-colored fishes (family Ostraciontidae) of tropical seas that are related to the triggerfishes but have the body and head enclosed in a hard carapace of hexagonal bony plates — called also trunkfish

9. Definition of Balistidae : a family of long-snouted small-eyed marine fishes having a deep compressed body and rough spinose scales, comprising the triggerfishes and sometimes the filefishes, and a few related forms consisting a suborder of Plectognathi