Animalia > Chordata > Tetraodontiformes > Balistidae > Odonus > Odonus niger

Odonus niger (redtoothed filefish; Red-toothed triggerfish; Redtoothed triggerfish; Redtooth triggerfish; Redtooth trigerfish; Redfang triggerfish; Red toothed file fish; Blue triggerfish; Triggerfish)

Synonyms: Balistes erythrodon; Odonus erythrodon; Xenodon niger
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Wikipedia Abstract

Odonus niger also known as the Red-toothed triggerfish is a triggerfish of the tropical Indo-Pacific area, the sole member of its genus.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hypocreadium galapagoensis <Unverified Name>[2]
Lepotrema clavatum[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0