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Pseudobalistes fuscus (yellowspotted triggerfish; Yellow-spotted triggerfish; Rippled triggerfish; Brown triggerfish; Bluelined triggerfish; Blue-and-gold triggerfish; Blue triggerfish; Blue or rippled triggerfish)

Synonyms: Balistes caerulescens; Balistes fuscus; Balistes reticulatus; Balistes rivulatus
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Wikipedia Abstract

Pseudobalistes fuscus, common names blue triggerfish or rippled triggerfish, yellow-spotted triggerfish and blue-and-gold triggerfish, is a fish belonging to the family Balistidae.
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Prey / Diet

Echinometra mathaei (Indo-pacific borer urchin)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Balistapus undulatus (redlined triggerfish)1
Cheilinus trilobatus (Maori wrasse)1
Coris aygula (redthroated rainbowfish)1
Coris formosa (Red wrasse)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Sphincteristomum acollum[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Fish predators and scavengers of the sea urchin Echinometra mathaei in Kenyan coral-reef marine parks, Timothy R. McClanahan, Environmental Biology of Fishes 43: 187-193, 1995.
♦ 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