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Canthidermis maculata (Ocean triggerfish; Whitespotted triggerfish; Triggerfish; Spotted triggerfish; Spotted oceanic triggerfish; Rough triggerfish; Oceanic triggerfish; White-spotted triggerfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Canthidermis maculata, also known as rough triggerfish or spotted oceanic triggerfish, is a species of triggerfish native to the tropical and subtropical oceans worldiwide. Unlike most triggerfish, they are mostly pelagic. In the Philippines, it is locally called as Tikos in the Cebuano language and is abundant in the Visayas and Mindanao island groups.
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Infraspecies

Balistes maculatus var. maculatus

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Archipelago de Colon Biosphere Reserve 34336011 Galapagos Islands, Ecuador  
Everglades and Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve   Florida, United States  
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary IV 2387149 Florida, United States
Tsitsikamma National Park II 34343 Southern Cape, South Africa  

Prey / Diet

Encrasicholina punctifer (Oceanic anchovy)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Coryphaena hippurus (Mahi-mahi)[2]
Thunnus albacares (Yellowfin-tuna)[3]
Xiphias gladius (Swordfish)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Otobothrium dipsacus[2]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Predation of Fishes on Open-ocean Species of Sea-skaters (Halobates spp.), Tetsushi Senta, Motofumi Kimura and Toshikazu Kanbara, Japan J. Ichthyol. 40(2): 193-198, 1993
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Forage fauna in the diet of three large pelagic fishes (lancetfish, swordfish and yellowfin tuna) in the western equatorial Indian Ocean, Michel Potier, Francis Marsac, Yves Cherel, Vincent Lucas, Richard Sabatié, Olivier Maury and Frédéric Ménard, Fisheries Research 83 (2007) 60–72
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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