AQUADICO


Boomerang triggerfish
or bursa triggerfish


Sufflamen bursa

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

Description: Size: about 25 cm; triggerfish, the color of the flanks, which runs from the cover to the caudal fin is pale yellow in color with white horizontal stripes.
The ventral area that starts from the mouth to the anal fin is clear united.
A short, curved line, black through the membrane, a second curved line parallel to the first, longest, begins below the eye and stops at the boundary between the flank and belly area.

Housing: He lives in shallow reef habitats outside. It is a reef fish that has a powerful beak, rather fierce kind.

Feeding:triggerfish hull feeds mainly corals, algae and small invertebrates in the reef; it also eats crustaceans and molluscs. .
          
  
 


Taxonomic classification


Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinoterygii Subclass: Neopterygii To print in "PDF" format
Order: Tetraodontiformes Suborder: Balistoidei Family: Balistidae
Genus: Sufflamen Species: bursa Descriptor: Bloch & Schneider, 1801