Sealife guideThe Tetraodontiformes orderThe taxonomy of marine species

Explore the taxonomy of the sea vertebrates including the cetaceans like the whales or the dolphins, the sea birds, the fish, the sharks and the sea turtles !

Les poissons marins

Black triggerfish
(Melichthys niger)

Blue throated triggerfish
(Xanthichthys auromarginatus)

Ocean triggerfish
(Canthidermis sufflamen)

Orange striped triggerfish
(Balistapus undulatus)

Picasso triggerfish
(Rhinecanthus aculeatus)

Pinktail triggerfish
(Melichthys vidua)

Queen triggerfish
(Balistes vetula)

Redtooth triggerfish
(Odonus niger)

Sargassum triggerfish
(Xanthichthys ringens)

Titan triggerfish
(Balistoides viridescens)

Turbot
(Balistes capriscus)

Wedgetail triggerfish
(Rhinecanthus rectangulus)

Yellow-spotted triggerfish
(Pseudobalistes fuscus)

Yellowmargin triggerfish
(Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus)

Longspined porcupinefish
(Diodon holocanthus)

Bump-head sunfish
(Mola alexandrini)

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Poisson lapin tacheté d'or
(Siganus guttatus)