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Titan Triggerfish - Balistoides viridescens
This Titan Triggerfish - Balistoides viridescens can be very aggressive during their nesting season when they are protecting their eggs. If you swim too close to them or their egg nest, they will 'attack' you, swimming fast directly to you to bite.
The titan triggerfish, giant triggerfish or moustache triggerfish is a large species of triggerfish found in lagoons and at reefs to depths of 50 m in most of the Indo-Pacific, though it is absent from Hawaii. With a length of up to 75 centimetres, it is the largest species of triggerfish in its range.
Similar species: Box, Puffer And Trigger Fishes
By Albert Kang
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Uploaded Jun 18, 2017. Captured May 15, 2015 09:40 in Unnamed Road, 91308 Semporna, Sabah, Malaysia.
