In the spotlight
Le saviez-vous ? Les coulisses de la reproduction à Nausicaá en 2025
Poissons, crevettes, requins, les animaux qui se reproduisent ou sont élevés à Nausicaá rejoignent les espaces d'exposition.
Identity card
Halfmoon triggerfish
- Scientific name:
- Sufflamen chrysopterum
- Family:
- Balistidae
- Class:
- Actinopterygii
- Phylum:
- Chordata
- Year of description:
- Bloch & Schneider, 1801
- IUCN Status:
- Least Concern
- Distribution:
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Indo-Pacific: East Africa, northern Australia to Samoa; north to southern Japan.
- Habitat:
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Between 0 and 80 metres, coastal and outer reefs, shallow lagoons.
- Size:
Up to 30 cm.
- Diet:
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Various invertebrates: molluscs, crustaceans, worms, echinoderms.
