The gilded triggerfish or blue-throated triggerfish, ''Xanthichthys auromarginatus'', is a spotted gray
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-Pacifi ...
. Males of the species have blue cheeks and yellow-bordered, white fins. It is widely, but locally, distributed at islands in the
Indo-Pacific.
In the aquarium
Unlike most triggerfish, it is rarely aggressive towards other fish. This fish usually does not attack any sessile
invertebrates
Invertebrates are a paraphyletic group of animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a ''backbone'' or ''spine''), derived from the notochord. This is a grouping including all animals apart from the chordat ...
, but may eat ornamental shrimp.
References
FishBase Species Summary
External links
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Balistidae
Fish of Hawaii
Fish described in 1832
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