Animalia > Chordata > Tetraodontiformes > Balistidae > Balistapus > Balistapus undulatus

Balistapus undulatus (redlined triggerfish; Vermiculated triggerfish; Undulated triggerfish; Undulate triggerfish; Striped triggerfish; Red-lined triggerfish; Orangestriped triggerfish; Orangestripe triggerfish; Orange-lined triggerfish; Orange striped triggerfish; Leatherjacket)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Balistapus undulatus, also known as the Orange-lined triggerfish is a demersal marine fish belonging to the family Balistidae, the triggerfishes. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Balistapus.
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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    

Prey / Diet

Echinometra mathaei (Indo-pacific borer urchin)[1]
Echinothrix diadema (Spiny urchin)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Cheilinus trilobatus (Maori wrasse)1
Coris aygula (redthroated rainbowfish)1
Coris formosa (Red wrasse)1
Pseudobalistes fuscus (yellowspotted triggerfish)1

Predators

Caranx melampygus (black ulua)[2]
Cephalopholis argus (Argus grouper)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cucullanus bourdini[3]
Lobatocreadium exiguum[3]

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.
♦ 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.
♦ 3Gibson, 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