AQUADICO


Red-toothed triggerfish
or blue triggerfish


Odonus niger

Distribution: Originally from the Indian Ocean, it is also found in the South Pacific, Red Sea.

Description: Recognizable by its blue livery and caudal fin shape of a crescent moon.
It is also called red tooth triggerfish because of the color of its beak.

Housing: He lives in shallow reef habitats outside. It is a reef fish that has a powerful beak.
It moves one or banc.La night he seeks refuge in the cavities.

Feeding: Blue triggerfish feeds mainly invertebrates and algae reef; it also eats crustaceans, molluscs and fish and also grazes coral.
          
 


Taxonomic classification


Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinoterygii Subclass: Neopterygii To print in "PDF" format
Order: Tetraodontiformes Sub order: Balistoidei Family: Balistidae
Genus: odonus Species: niger Descriptor: Ruppell, 1836