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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Balistidae

Triggerfishes

WoRMS 125607ITIS 173128GBIF 5899key worms:125607
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2026-08-05: itis_id 173128 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · lilychughes · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Balistes fuscus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Balistidae
Photo · Rino · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Triggerfish are one of 41 species of marine, ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Balistidae. Often brightly colored and marked by lines and spots, they inhabit tropical and subtropical oceans throughout the world, with the greatest species richness in the Indo-Pacific.W CalCOFI holds 79 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1958 and 2006, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

79
observations
79
records
26
sampling events
1958–2006
years
1
datasets
2
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 26 obs · 26 events · 1958–2006 · larva
    name used: Balistidae Triggerfishes · code 415

Under it · 2 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125607%22