''Sufflamen'' is a

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triggerfish Triggerfish are about 40 species of often brightly colored fish of the family Balistidae. Often marked by lines and spots, they inhabit tropical and subtropical oceans throughout the world, with the greatest species richness in the Indo-Pacific ...

es native to

reef A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral or similar relatively stable material, lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water. Many reefs result from natural, abiotic component, abiotic processes—deposition (geology), deposition of ...

s of the Indian and

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...

Species

There are currently 5 recognized species in this genus: * '' Sufflamen albicaudatum'' Rüppell, 1829 (Bluethroat triggerfish) * '' Sufflamen bursa''

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& J. G. Schneider, 1801 (Boomerang triggerfish) * '' Sufflamen chrysopterum''

& J. G. Schneider, 1801 (Halfmoon triggerfish) * '' Sufflamen fraenatum'' Latreille, 1804 (Masked triggerfish) * '' Sufflamen verres'' C. H. Gilbert & Starks, 1904 (Orangeside triggerfish)

References

Balistidae Ray-finned fish genera Taxa named by David Starr Jordan {{triggerfish-stub