Photo: Storm Martin · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 40 cm
- 🌊 outer slopes, in schools
The redtooth triggerfish forms large schools of dark blue-violet fish with a crescent tail, grazing on plankton in the current of the passes.
Did you know?
In Tahitian it is called ʻoʻiri ave.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Baliste bleu.
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