Trigger fish
Marine fish with regularly ossified skeleton. High, rhomboid or oval body fish, compressed laterally, covered by bony plates. Small mouth and armed with sharp teeth, behind which is a small gill orifice. The first dorsal fin consists of 3 hard spines: the first is rough in the anterior part, with a slit and smooth in the posterior, and the second has a bony protuberance; When the first one rises the rest also make it moved by the membrane that unites them, and the second spine is captured in the first, forming a rigid vertical structure that fits the fish in cracks or cavities. The second dorsal, high, has 27 or 28 soft spokes. Anal opposite the second dorsal, with 23-26 soft rays. Ventral reduced to 1 spine. Gray color, with bluish and brown transverse spots.
TRG
Balistes capriscus
White fish
- Area 21: the Northwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean
- Area 27: the Northeastern part of the Atlantic Ocean
- Area 31: the Western part of the Atlantic Ocean
- Area 34: the Eastern Central part of the Atlantic Ocean
- Area 37: the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea
- Area 41: the Southwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean
- Area 47: the Southeastern part of the Atlantic Ocean
- Area 87: the Southeastern part of the Pacific Ocean
