Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 75 cm
- 🌊 reef slopes, deep lagoons
The titan triggerfish is the largest triggerfish: green-yellow, with a big mouth and strong teeth. During the breeding season it aggressively defends its bowl-shaped nest on the sand and may bite divers who approach, even from several metres above.
Did you know?
Divers learn to swim away sideways (not upwards) when a titan triggerfish is on its nest: its territory is a cone that is wider towards the surface.
Source: Dive safety advice
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Baliste titan.
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